I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

Baddies always do get the best lines, that's the honest truth.

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realized I'd become an actor.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

I'm not really very ambitious.

I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force.

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.

I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.

When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.

It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.

There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.

Courage is not the absence of fear, it's to feel the fear and face it anyway.

Hitler is a medicine man type of leader.

Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

When temptation comes your way, name that boastful, deceitful giant “Goliath!” and do with it as David did to the Philistine of Gath.

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.

It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.

The Republicans know very well how to lose, and they know how to be very civil in defeat.

[Elijah Wood] has got such a broad outlook. It's so much bigger than just the acting industry.

The texture of experience is prior to everything else.