But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

The cause of making the world a better place for children unites us all.

There's periods now in our New York residence when I hear the door opening, especially the first couple of years... Anytime I hear that door opening I still think I'm gonna hear her.

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.

You are not what you were born, but what you have it in yourself to be.

I believe that UNICEF is the most important branch of the U.N.; they do exceptional work to help the neediest children around the world

Men fear most what they cannot see.

It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race.

I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.

Northern Ireland is the world’s best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.

But, I tell myself, Weight is just an artifact of gravity. If this were a jazz club on the moon, I would weigh less.

I don't think anyone is free - one creates one's own prison.

Puns are the highest form of literature.

There were in life rarely, if ever, "right" decisions, never perfect ones, only the best to be made under the circumstances.

Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity.

It's easier to do an action scene than a love scene. I love fighting. When the camera's not rolling, I'll usually punch some of the actors, just for fun.

I'm looking around at the real world and I'm kind of seeing that as technology is advancing and the human race is advancing, we are kind of also taking steps backward.

I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.