I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

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.

There are only possibilities

The gospel of the kingdom is about hard work.

We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

I think we have got to put fire under the feet of all kinds of people.

You don't have to wear fur. They make such great fakes. There's no reason to kill an animal.

Athletics is in my blood.

There is zero evidence for god.

Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.

All the wisdom in the world cannot put in one's heart the love one yearned for as a small child.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.