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.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

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.

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

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

I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level.