Acting is one of these things that I can't really describe - it's just like, why do you love your mum and dad? You know, you just do.

I think if my child died I would prefer it if I were dead.

Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.

The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.

I try as best as I can to have a normal life. People recognise you, of course, and that's very strange. But I sort of leave my working life behind when I go home. That's my other world.

Everyone thinks I'm ethereal. But I'm not like that, you know. I'm not ethereal. Well, I might have a little bit of that quality to me, that 'old soul' thing, but I'm not ethereal.

If you don't have eyebrows, you don't really have a face.

The 1916 uprising was kind of the most important rebellion in Ireland's fight for independence that had been going on for 700 years. So it's a very important moment in history for us.

I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.

My name means freedom in Irish.

It's too distracting to read about yourself. You want to be perfect and you want everyone to love you, and that's never going to happen.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!

When we're able to resign ourselves to the wishes that will never come true, there can be enormous energies available within us for whatever we CAN do.

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.

I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks

God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

I want to hear people say, "Oh, he's matured. He's a grown up now".

Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.