I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.

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.

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.

What are you talking about?" Narcissus demanded. "I am amazing. Everyone knows this.""Amazing at pure suck, " Leo said. "If I was as suck as you, I'd drown myself. Oh wait, you already did that.

Who's my hero? That's a great question... Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he's someone I look up to every day.

The Psalms are the voices of the church.

The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief.

Realistic expectations for life are that we are going to be better today than we were yesterday, be better tomorrow than we were today. That's a plan for success. So [the key is] simple: just work.

It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices.

Relatively few of us will find the time-or take it-to live an ever enlarging life.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

We have but one rule here, and that is that every student must be a gentleman.