You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

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.

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 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.

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