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

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.'

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.

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

I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.