I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride.

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.

Now everyone dreams of a love faithful and true, But you and I know what this world can do.So let's make our steps clear so the other may see.And I'll wait for you...should I fall behind wait for me.

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.

The birds fly in the wrong places and there are too many stars in the sky.

When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.

The other day a woman came up to me and said, Didn't I see you on television? I said, I don't know. You can't see out the other way.

How long the night to the watchman, How long the road to the weary traveller, How long the wandering of many lives To the fool who misses the way.

Sin regardless of how you get there is a vulnerable and a dangerous place to be. Living in unforgiveness is living in an unsafe place.

A good boss asks what part she could have played in the problem. And then she asks herself what she can do better next time.

We few. We happy few. We band of brothers, for he today That sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.