I don’t like to rehearse. And I couldn’t understand how you could go through eight weeks of rehearsal, without exhausting every possibility. To the point where, you know, you would just lie gasping on the floor!

Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.

I've been very lucky.

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.

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father...

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

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.