I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.

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.

It took greater energy to be able to focus when heardthe voice of wisdom in a hustle bustle than in serenity.

Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.

We use our gadgets for distraction and entertainment. We use them to avoid work while giving the impression that we're actually working hard.

Captaincy is something you get better at through experience. You've got to trust your instincts.

Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge.

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

Men may not read the gospel in sealskin, or the gospel in morocco, or the gospel in cloth covers, but they can't get away from the gospel in shoe leather.

If we spend enough time with God, He'll either make us strong enough that problems won't bother us, or He'll show us what to do about them.

Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing.

I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.