You're an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn't be limited by your extraction.

The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.

I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.

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

I was obsessed with Batman as a kid. I did the film in part just to be near the Batmobile. But I also think [director] Christopher Nolan made a very fine, intelligent film.

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.

It's always nice to be challenged.