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.

I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace.

You make me want to be a better man.

I feel very lucky because I don't think there's any part I can't play. There are parts that scare me more than others.

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.

There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.

When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.