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.

That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.

Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie.

People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.

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.

I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.

I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.