It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.

Baddies always do get the best lines, that's the honest truth.

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realized I'd become an actor.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

I'm not really very ambitious.

I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force.

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.

I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.

When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.

There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.

Committed to lead from the heart I appreciate a free spirit and do not follow idealistic rulebook.

They had lied, those who had extolled the virtues of love—its pleasures, its sublimity—those who had told her that it was beautiful and worthwhile.There was nothing beautiful abo

Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.

I have trouble voicing my thoughts... I can't communicate very well that way.

If you got it, flaunt it may be decent advice for prostitutes, but no one else.

What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.

In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.

I never left you; I never will leave you. While life lasts, and beyond, I am here.

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

I'm not reclusive. I'm out and about.