I was born in New York, so I'd love to study at New York University.

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.

Change the way you think and you will change the way you feel.

A spiritual hell I lived in … hating the God of love and knowing the god I served … hated me!

It's never the right time to take a particular stand.

All that analysis is well and good, but what I need right now is a left-handed batter who can hit the ball over the shortstop's head.

Nothing prevents boredom like a good book.

Refusing to teach a passage of Scripture is just as wrong as abusing it

For a couple of days after chemotherapy, food tastes really bland, even the best foods. I haven't been sick, but have been a little tired. I haven't lost any weight.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

Well-trained and dedicated employees are the only sustainable source of competitive strength.

We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates us from any favorite object.