Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.

The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.

Any society that justifies violence against any human being for any reason will be a violent society. It will ultimately infect and affect the whole society. Everyone will suffer.

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time.

To do something good, it has to scare you.

Men!" I said. "You all a bunch of chauvinist morons" Stephanie Plum - Ten Big Ones

Your Day Is Your Life

The fact was, I didn't know if I was built for happy endings.

I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"

Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.