I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.

OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them.

I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.

I come from the Lynchs of Sligo. You know, I went there, but I looked in the phone book and there are nine million Lynches in Sligo.

Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.

I don't remember if I've been asked seriously to direct a picture. I understand that. I'm very good business for people as an actor and perhaps they'd rather I didn't.

[on the birth of his son after having had two daughters] I finally got it right.