I'd wear clogs, short pants and ladies' bracelets. I created this aura for myself.

I can't control how people are going to react. I try not to worry about what I can't control.

Life is hard for everyone. That's why there's such a nice reward at the end of it.

I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which is where my family is from - in Ireland.

I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved.

I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.

I had to bring myself back down to being a normal person again.

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

There's certainly more work for me in TV these days.

I don't get any parts I don't get offered. There are lots of great things out there I would like to do that I don't get offered.

I'd sneak out of the house to meet girls at 3:30 a.m.

You must remember that God’s call upon your life is not an accident

Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.

It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.

With modern recording techniques, and living in the Pro Tools era, the process gets really drawn-out, and it can become painstaking.

I know what makes me happy. I know what makes me miserable. I'm trying to stay on the happy side.

Small numbers make no difference to God. There is nothing small if God is in it.

You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

President Kennedy’s assassination, less than two weeks ago, has struck the world dumb. It’s like no one wants to be the first to break the silence. Nothing seems important.

Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.

Sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger. The person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger.