I wouldn't go down the route of having an assistant. I don't want to be like that. I want to be normal.

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.

Yoga is the best way to learn to adapt and adjust to the changing environments.

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

To win one Moonman is amazing, to win two is incredible.

The vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind

To know that you do not know and to be willing to admit that you do not know without sheepishly apologizing is real strength and sets the stage for learning and progress in any endeavor.

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

Pleasing ware is half sold.

To be honest, all I wanted to do, all I ever, ever wanted to do - I just wanted to perform.

A sucker don't ever catch on. A smart man don't ever sleep. He's got to keep ducking the traps.

Just as the Romans were the only nation that was truly a nation, so our age is the first genuine age.