If you don't have eyebrows, you don't really have a face.

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.

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.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

I want you to have the best of everything I can give you. And I'm not talking money here, Tru. I'm talking memories. Our life together.

Creatures are not entitled to register complaints about their Creator.

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

If nobody wants to buy your album, who's going to buy your clothes?

To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.

People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can.

I like it when actors depart from the script to find their characters.

I have an excuse to show off my love of history, and my interest in cosmology.

There is something hidden in each sensation.

I think when you're off the clock, you should be off the clock.