As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth.

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

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin.

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.