I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.

There's a ruthlessness to the city now that wasn't there before. I was in Dublin a few months ago, when we were shooting Breakfast on Pluto, and if I saw one kid throwing up on the street, I must have seen a hundred of them.

Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life.

The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

...Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception.

It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.