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" The joy of just being involved in something, of being part of a big process, just as a human being, it's nice to be part of people who are in the same enterprise, heading for the same goal, rather than, 'Oh this is all about me and my role. The story's about me.' "

Ciaran Hinds

Joy

Process

Nice

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Back

Always

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People

Lose

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Being

Saw

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Never

Work

" 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. "

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

Ciaran Hinds

Profile

Got

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" 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. "

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" 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'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. "

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

" 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. "