I'm happy being an actor, it's what I have always wanted to do. I'm just lucky I got to do it so early.

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.

It's generally more fun playing the villain

I'm usually the guy who knocks everyone out in order to get the girl.

I mean I’m 16 and 17 years wiser now. So if I could do it when I was 18 with a guy, I can certainly do it at 33 with a lady.

I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don't have complete faith in.

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity

I think the work is always going to be much better when it's important and personal to you.

I think we can affect our own fates, but there's also a powerful energy that's the universe or God or whatever your unconscious recognizes that helps along your way.

I have too many control issues, so it just is not good for me to go and watch a film, too soon after I make it.

A stink. A stench. A foulness in her mind, dreadful and unforgiving. A compost of horrible ideas and rotted thoughts that made her want to take our her brain and wash it.

We carry a new world in our hearts. That world is growing every minute.

Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty.

I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.

It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.

You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace.

The nearest thing to immortality in this world is a government bureau.

Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of readiness for farther progress.

The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.