For me, clothes are about individuality. When I wear things that are different and it works, it makes me feel good.

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.

I don't diet. I just don't eat as much as I'd like to.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

The most important job in life is being a mom.

If you're going to miss 'em, miss 'em quick.

Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.

Sadness is an opportunity; a good opportunity to learn the real life!

Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon.

May your homes be filled with peace, harmony, courtesy, and love. May they be filled with the Spirit of the Lord.

Never flinch, never weary, never despair.