I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because its repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

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.

You need to use the instrument that the people desire to captivate them back to things that are right

They would repair the leaks in their eyes.

Wherever there is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.

The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.

Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.

I just get up in the morning and say: 'Yeah man, I'm ready to score goals.'

The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth.

I know that the creator will go, but his work survives. That is why to escape death, I attempt to bind my soul to my work.

The reference to John Podesta is general. It is not specific. And, by the way, he does have his time in the barrel shortly thereafter.

I've weighed 100 lbs. soaking wet since puberty.