I like to get far away from myself when I'm acting.

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.

Distortion is part of desire. We always change the things we want.

I've always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she'd be ready to give up on me.

We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.

I didn't start playing piano until I was 18.

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

There are certain racetracks where I feel like I could run 1,000 miles.

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.

I mean, the best thing for my knee, for anyone's knee, is to never play again and retire. But I'm not going to do that.

We are all God's animated cartoons.