I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.

I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one.

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.

That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.

I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie.

If you can EAT! you can lose the weight!!

The world, as it is, is not a permanent reality, but is a temporary product of our choices as creators.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others by means of love friendship indignation and compassion.

As one skeleton said to the other - if I had any guts I'd get the heck out of here.

One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it.

Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.

What is your name?" asked Lear. Caius," said Kent. And whence do you hail?" From Bonking, sire." Well, yes, lad, as do we all," said Lear, "but from what town?

Boiled down to its core, the truth is always a simple, solid thing

The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.

Enthusiasm is the force that leads us to the final victory.