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" People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy. "

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" I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are. "

" The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you. "

" Acting is way of making yourself exist. "

" I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion. "

" I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level. "

" I never watch TV. I know I'm missing so much, aren't I? I'm probably not. I can't stand popular TV. I've got too much to do to watch it. I know that sounds pretentious and pompous, but there you are. "

" You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares. "

" My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do. "

" That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere. "

" If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count. "

" I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down. "

" At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed to have found a way out of the sectarian division of the country. "

" I'm not in denial about technology, but my mother used to say when I was a kid, 'Son, you're handless,' because I couldn't fix anything. My ambition is to be a Luddite. "

" Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie. "

" I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one. "

" I see people with laptops as being enslaved to something they can't live without. "

" I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along. "

" People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing. "

" At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I? "

" I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has more character. "

" You do small movies because the script is good and because you believe in the director. You don't care about the money. And when they disappear, it's a pity. "

" The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way. "

" I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me. "