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

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

I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one.

I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are.

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.

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

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.