Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step toward it.

Actors should never give interviews.

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

I'm not actually a big musical fan.

As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'