I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.

I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.

We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.

I don't smoke and I don't drink alcohol.

This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.

To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.

Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film.

I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.

I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.

I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vampire ever.

All that either of us has is right now and we should pay attention to that.

If he once failed as a father, it was a noble fail.

Within the grand scale of things, sitting in a classroom day after day is so utterly meaningless and pointless that it actually makes his chest hurt to think about it.

Turns out, most girls would rather put on lip gloss than play with sand toads.

Listen to me." He grabbed my arms, holding me there. " I couldn't find you. And I will never forgive myself for that. Ever.

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head

For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.

I prefer not to eat food that has a face.

I'm a passionate individual, and sometimes when I have strong feelings about a subject, I feel the need to express myself.

There's no one there to understand, there's just understanding, which flourishes in you as peace, joy and contentment.

Brilliantly, ecstatically, irrepressibly. This is the way to burn