I've basically grown up with Harry Potter, as so many kids my age have. It's kind of a part of my life.

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.

The one who praises you is a thief. The one who criticizes you is your true friend.

It is better to experience sorrow than happiness.Many life lessons are learnt in moments of sorrow.

Making love is not necessary to make love.

A good work is a partnership between you and nature... Nature will help you every step of the way.

It isn't possible to love and to part.

Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.

People pay a million dollars to be recognized, but nobody cares about them. They cared about me because I did things other men were afraid to do. That's why my fans identified with me.

A man walks into a hospital feeling unwell and the doctor says: "Sorry, you've only got three minutes to live." The man said: "Can you do something for me?" "Yes," he said. "I'll boil you an egg."

You grow stronger from failure than you do from success.

I've been fortunate in that I've been forced to move from zone to zone.