I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.

At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed to have found a way out of the sectarian division of the country.

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.

People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.