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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know? "

" Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago. "

" In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind. "

" I have friends who have daughters and there's times I think I'm glad I have boys instead of girls. "

" You think your life is going one way and then suddenly, you're on another track. "

" Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change. "

" I always wanted to be a cowboy, and Jedi Knights are basically cowboys in space, right? "

" I have to make it my job to be careful with my family. "

" But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist. "

" Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond. "

" Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday. "

" I'm trying to be a comedian, you know? "

" 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. "

" It's funny, but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ever have. "

" I've had an unbelievable life. I've been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I'm from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a ditch, I always think, 'That's real work.' "

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

" Sitting down to eat in our house is about sharing, you know, talking about the day you've had, be it in school or work or whatever, so that's very important to us. "

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

" I have often found that no matter where I meet people in the world, there is a path that leads back to Queen's. "

" Hollywood is throwing action movies at me. "

" You can't act being a boxer. It's like being on stage. "

" I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope. "

" At the Sex Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, they were a phenomenal help, too. We went out there for a few days, and they gave us access to materials. And the biographies, there are four or five, ranging from very poor to excellent. "

" If I get rejected for a part, I pick myself up and say, 'OK, not today, maybe tomorrow I'll get this other part or something.' "