As a means of supporting experiential element in film, once I begin to work on a particular movie I consider myself to be the tool of the director.

When they say I'm a great actor, I close my ears because it's not good for you to think that way.

How would I like to be seen? Very endearing, charming, intelligent, handsome.

I'm such a perfectionist. I always feel overpraised or whatever. In the abstract, I know I'm a good person, a good professional. But it's nice to be noticed a little bit, ain't it?

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.

Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world.

I would never say, "I'm retired." I believe if I decided to just not work, in six months everybody would just forget whether you were working or not.