I loved Laurel and Hardy and TV shows like 'Robin Hood' and 'Rama of the Jungle'.

Occasionally, I have time to go to the theater, and I think for a minute, 'Man, I'd really love to be doing a play right now.' Because I loved doing plays when I was doing them. Then I think, 'I want to do it right now, but will I want to do that Sunday matinee in six weeks?'

I'm always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I'll make the time to do it.

I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish, as lyrical and romantic as they can be in their poetry, they can be every bit as repressed in their personal relations.

You try to go where the great scripts are, if you can, or you go where the not great scripts are, because that's what's being offered to you.

Theater, because of the commitment, it has to be a great role and a great play to me. It takes a lot out of you.

I get a lot of people coming up to me and saying, "I really hate you." And they say it in the nicest possible way and I accept it. It's the people who come up to you and say, "I really liked your character. Man, he was right!" Those are the ones you worry about.