I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

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 act of seeking is essential to life.

Subsisting on a diet drawn from one food group isn't healthy or gratifying. Even eating cupcakes 24/7 eventually would get old!

Don't let a little sin in; all hell will break loose.

I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.

We can't continue to be like this. Who am I? Your fiancée or your concubine?

Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

We are practicing what we preach so that we may preach what we practice.

We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.'