I will never sit down with Gerry Adams . . . he'd sit with anyone. He'd sit down with the devil. In fact, Adams does sit down with the devil.

Line dancing is as sinful as any other type of dancing, with its sexual gestures and touching. It is an incitement to lust.

I would never repudiate the fact that I am an Irishman

Never confuse sitting on your side with being on your side.

Catholic homes caught fire because they were loaded with petrol bombs.

Don't come crying to me if your homes are attacked. You will reap what you sow.

We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left.

You can't build the bridge of trust with the scaffolding of lies and underhand deals

I would rather be British than just.

Come Friday, the world will see what the Protestant people really think of this so-called peace process, which is really a surrender process.

We are not going into government with Sinn Fein.

In a war, the first casualty is human dignity.

When religion becomes so involved in a future good "over yonder" that it forgets the present evils over here it is as dry as dust religion and needs to be condemned.

Ah, if he had ever been a slave he would have known how difficult it was to trust a white man.

I work out like a maniac and I spray tan a lot. Genetics were kind, but I work very hard.

I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.

I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.

My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.

I don't know where I'm supposed to meet a boyfriend. It's weird.

In my everyday life, I just wear jeans, t-shirts and trainers - if I can go barefoot, that's even better. But for the events I have a stylist, and in two hours we have selected a whole outfit.

I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star.