I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

I think if you're the son or daughter of successful actors and actresses, it's a double pressure. More is expected of you.

If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them, and stab them in the heart.

No man is an island, as they say. No. I've tried it. I've gone on retreats at various times in my life for three or four or five days. I was desperate to get out of there and talk to somebody. But I fly fish a lot, and I can only do that really by myself. I find I'm never lonesome when I'm on a river, far from it, but it's a lonely practice.

I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.