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

It's obvious that if you're going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they're in and use as little or as much as necessary

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.

I don't think they'd ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I'd love to play Chuck Baker

I'm interested in pressure, I'm interested in duress. All the great works of art, or film or literature, in my opinion, have elements of those in them.

You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be open to every experience.

I'm pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.