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

I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

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

Now I have begun to get interested in films and I just hope that people start becoming interested in me to do more films.

I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

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

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