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" I visit London several times a year. It is my home away from home. "

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" I try to be as disciplined as I possibly can. I try to live a fairly kind of clean life. I do yoga; I cycle and do weights and swim. I do whatever it takes. "

" I know something about life and being a father and the worries and the fears of bringing up children. "

" Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience. "

" I just find that you can become a very boring person living in L.A. I tell you, living there on a day-to-day basis is vacuous: terribly fake. "

" Together we are stronger, our voices louder, and the synergy of our actions more powerful. Together we can prevail on the Navy to put commonsense safeguards in place, like requiring its ships to avoid the most sensitive marine mammal habitats and to stop their training exercises during peak migrations. "

" You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself. "

" I always keep thinking, 'The next role - that's going to be the one that's really going to define me and show them all. I'll transform and disappear, and it will be a revelation.' "

" I'm an actor first and foremost. My producing credentials are just to say, 'Yeah, I love this story and now let's bring the people, the ensemble together,' and I get out of the way. I have no desire to check on schedules and shooting schedules and money and stuff like that. "

" I like playing thieves. "

" My life started on the banks of the Boyne in County Meath. Navan is the name of the town; only me, Mom, Dad. "

" You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way. "

" Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice. "

" Love means that everything is right with the world. Love and only love. Love means that you are content within your own heart and in the presence of the person that you love, who fills your day and makes you stronger and wiser, and gives you the confidence to go out into the world. Love is just the most beautiful, joyous feeling. "

" You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father. "

" The forties are very cool and very pastoral. The fifties look like they're pastoral, and then you get a bit more turbulence. "

" Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it. "

" Clive Owen would be a fantastic James Bond. Any man who does it will have to weigh his odds - whether he can get in and get out. "

" If I knew I could never come back to Ireland, to England, I think I'd fall off the tree. "

" I like dressing in all seasons. Every season has its own character and charm. "

" There was a beautiful church where I lived in Navan, taught by the Christian brothers: fierce, angry men, repressed. "

" I know what it's like to be famous. It's good money and it's great fun. A real kick in the pants. People wave at you and smile at you. You get great tables in restaurants. They send you gifts - beautiful clothes and cars. "

" I've been accused of my publicist of being too confessional... it's probably my Celtic upbringing. "

" I love the intimacy and the passion and the danger that go into independent filmmaking. Because it comes out of a creative necessity. It comes from people who really want to make a movie and want to make a difference and want to grab an audience by the gullet and show them something different. "

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" I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures. "

" When I went to America, I spoke so much about who I was and gave so much away in a confessional, Irish, story-telling way that I suddenly realised I had given up a lot of myself. I had to shut up. "

" I love 'Maxim,' actually. It's very cool. "

" I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch. "

" The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that they bring. "

" I like Chekov a lot. "

" I'd been brought up on... American TV: 'Lou Grant,' 'Starsky & Hutch;' 'Gilligan's Island.' "