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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Ciaran Hinds

Mother

Teacher

Influence

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

" To be quite honest. I have seen a few things in 3D, and it didn't involve me anymore than when I saw something in 2D. "

" 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. "

" My soul is still Irish. "

" My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving. "

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

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

" Grief is exhausting. "

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Grief

Exhausting

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

" 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. "

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

Ciaran Hinds

Profile

Got

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre, and I always go back every couple of years. "

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

Ciaran Hinds

People

Lose

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

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

Ciaran Hinds

Being

Saw

" Casting is very, very important. "

" When a play is really cooking, there's nothing like it. "

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

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

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

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

Ciaran Hinds

Back

Always

" I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present? "

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

Ciaran Hinds

Never

Work