I've found that I'd be the first one to cut lines.

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 artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

Live a life like a beautiful song, touch every heart with loving words and memorable music.

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing

If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in. We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say?

My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.

At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in whether I was baptized and how?

I work whenever I'm let.

The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing.

Never pass up any opportunity to share your gifts with the world.

Chess is most certainly not my life.