I don't look at rushes, or I don't go to the dailies. I don't even really look at playback unless it's an action scene or a move that I need to do better, something like that.

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.

All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive.

I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.

Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.

While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak - that gives it an existential emphasis.

the only perfect people are dead people, because their the only ones who can't make mistakes!

Vishous, could you stop grinning like that? You're beginning to freak me out.

I'm much more introspective than I was, say, thirty years ago.

I've got an IQ of 40 million.

Pain is the fuel of passion - it energizes us with an intensity to change that we don't normally possess.