I appreciate the written word and spoken word more, but Atonement sort of established so much of me. It was a character that didn't really speak, and I found that a lot of the roles I was gravitating toward after that were kind of nonverbal.

Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.

We grew up with a camera in front of us.

I grew up my whole life in Ireland and obviously sound very, very Irish. I feel like it's just one of those things that just charms the socks off of people.

One of the things that would steer me away from a franchise is that I'm playing the same character all the time and I wouldn't want to be known for that.

I wouldn't go down the route of having an assistant. I don't want to be like that. I want to be normal.

I don't think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead.