I'd probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.

With some films you can sort of slide in, get a haircut and you're in.

From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That's what I pursued until I was about 20, playing in bands that were taken pretty seriously at that stage.

I don't care if people perceive me as always selling out because I'm doing a studio picture. For me, the whole thing is you should be diverse in your choices; that's the beauty of being an actor, you should be able to do that.

My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.

My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.

Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote.