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" I'll tell you, being on set on 'Harry Potter' was nerve-wracking. It was surreal to be in a room with those three kids, all of whom know exactly what they're doing. "

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" That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them. "

Ciaran Hinds

Life

Why

Great

" When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life. "

Ciaran Hinds

Aware

Made

" No nation can claim, 'We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are.' "

" I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions. "

" Stuntwork... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself into the air onto a mat. "

" You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way. "

" I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years. "

" Most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working. "

" When you find somebody who doesn't give and take, you go, 'Remind me never to work with you again.' "

Ciaran Hinds

Never

Work

" I'd love to get into some comedy, but people keep saying, 'You're not funny!' And I say, 'Well, fair enough.' I have done comedy on stage. "

" I know I don't go looking for directors. I always wonder why they chose me. "

" I've never traveled to promote anything I've been in. I've only been to about two or three premieres. The way I work, I do bits, and then I'm off to something else, whether it's theater or another project. "

" In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is. "

" I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. "

Ciaran Hinds

Being

Saw

" I'm not a comic person at all. It never reached me in the north of Ireland, in the '60s and '70s growing up. We used to get stupid comics like 'The Topper' and 'The Beezer,' things like that. "

" Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies. "

" I don't hold much of care for 3D. I think it's a passing fad. It came and went in the '60s. I don't see what it adds to the story. "

" I'd never really been in a series, where you see a man at different points and perspectives in his life. Usually it's a film, where I'm playing a character who just comes in and offers something up. "

" You get to an age when you lose people close to you. "

Ciaran Hinds

People

Lose

" I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity. "

" I don't have a motorcar, so I've got to know and be fairly fond of the buses. "

" You try to work with the director and your fellow actors to get somewhere, but other people are the judge of whether you hit that note right. "

" Casting is very, very important. "

" For all the acting you can do, the actual soul of someone does somehow permeate through their work. "

" I've got a fairly low profile - I go and do me shopping when I need to! "

Ciaran Hinds

Profile

Got

" Grief is exhausting. When you learn - maybe through my age or experience - trying to harness the energy, whatever it is, muted energy or a concentration to find yourself in a place? You try to use it for when it's really necessary and can arrive. "

" We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland. "

" I come from theatre and I always go back every couple of years. "

Ciaran Hinds

Back

Always

" My father was a GP; my mother was a teacher and amateur actress. My father was a bit of a storyteller, but the acting influence must have been from her - yes, put it down to my mother. "

" I don't use the word 'artists' lightly. "