It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished

I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.

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.