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

When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem.

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.

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 never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the '70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don't want to sing in front of anybody.

But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.