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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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" Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies. "

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