A good comedy’s very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

Well, Ive always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.

The digital revolution has changed the way we do things because you're not under that pressure that film is precious and film is expensive.

I usually read a script from an audience perspective first, and then look more closely at the character only.

Normally when I'm sent a script I'll read it through to see how it hangs as a story and then I'll go back and read it through again and look at the character.

My old manager of the Irish National Theatre said 'Don't worry about being a star, just worry about being a working actor. Just keep working.' I think that's really good advice.

I do probably 80 or 90 per cent of the cooking at home.

As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.

You never know when the publicity people will feel it is a good time to release the film.

I love doing comedy. You don't get many good comedy scripts. They're rare. But, I do love playing comedy. Even in drama, I like to try to find the humor because I think it's very human.

Remember how we put stickers with your name on your pocessions that could be stolen.We didn't put a sticker on your innocence so don't lose it!

Lover of poetry, prose and procrastination.

Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life.

VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.

It is difficult to get played at my age on the radio.

The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is, in truth, a "personal" right.

All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

The one thing that I'm in charge of in this wedding is the food

I would want to travel the world and write about it. To be a famous writer.

Moist was sure doctors keep skeletons around to cow patients. Nyer, nyer, we know what you look underneath.