I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.

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.

We both fell asleep wrapped up together with the wolves still lullaby-ing us in the background

Collaboratition: the art of working with our competitors.

Evil be to him who evil thinks. (Honi soit qui mal y pense.)

We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength.

The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.

Life must be understood before getting old, most preferably, in youth!

I liked girls with pale skin because I am a California boy, tanned and blonde hair.

For me, if the music is good, whether the artist is famous or unknown, I love being part of the music and contributing what I can to the bass end.