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.

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

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

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because its repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.