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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Ciaran Hinds

You

People

Love

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

Ciaran Hinds

Profile

Got

" I don't think I'm very fashionable. I drink a fair amount of Barry's Tea, from Cork - but might that be fashionable? I don't know. "

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

Ciaran Hinds

Being

Saw

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Ciaran Hinds

Aware

Made

" My soul is still Irish. "

" Casting is very, very important. "

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

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

" It's so tough to get movies made in Ireland anymore. A whole generation of Irish filmmakers doesn't have the resources to get a movie made. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

Ciaran Hinds

People

Lose

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

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

Ciaran Hinds

Back

Always

" 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. "