Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.

I think if my child died I would prefer it if I were dead.

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.

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

Love gives you one more heart to beat for you.

Donald Trump has fired a campaign adviser for posting racist remarks on Facebook. Isn't that shocking? Donald Trump has a campaign adviser.

A bad day is just a day when you have been thinking more negative thoughts than positive ones. What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

...a good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask--but a great friend does it without being asked at all.

Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish.

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

You can apply the same heart, the same sense of euphoria to any genre.

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.