My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.

Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.

This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. Its exciting when you hit on a new way.