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" It's interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing. "

" When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem. "

" I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore. "

" Yes, I'm Catholic; I'm proud of it. But I had lots of Protestant friends. "

" I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose. "

" Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning. "

" People ask me if I ever feel outside the Hollywood loop, and I never do, because both of us do a lot of theatre, so it's great for New York and it's also half-way between Europe and the west coast, so it's the best of both worlds. "

" It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it. "

" As you know, Hollywood loves to pigeonhole all the actors and actresses, and suddenly I got 're-pigeonholed' as an action actor. "

" I don't think I'm funny. "

" It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race. "

" I don't do my own stunts, but I do my own fighting. I don't consider fighting to be a stunt. "

" Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift. "

" It's best to keep acting real. "

" It's easy enough to plan jobs, to plan a lot of work. "

" Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene. "

" I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too. "

" Well I think people think sex is controversial. Not always, but certainly it's something to be discussed. "

" I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism. "

" I was an OK boxer, I wasn't great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours. "

" I love working with children and this young boy, Thomas Sangster, is quite a remarkable young actor. He raises your game, you know. He certainly raised mine. "

" But, you know, sex is controversial, it just is and it always will be. "

" For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough. "

" But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines. "

" I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry. "

" I don't know if I'm a strict parent or a pushover. "

" I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the '70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don't want to sing in front of anybody. "