Making a film, you're in a really dark tunnel and the only kind of illumination is the shared experience you're having with your fellow cast and director.

I couldn't care less about who sees my bits ... My friends asked how I could do scenes like that and not get excited, but it wasn't like that. My bits looked the size of a cashew nut!

I've never seen a moon in the sky that, if it didn't take my breath away, at least misplaced it for a moment.

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival.

Girl trouble, for me, is when you fall in love.

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

I got to work with Jared Leto. Jared's cute. Oh, I'll tell you. Jared will make you doubt about your sexuality.

I'm a big old romantic.

Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.

My Mum taught me great manners. And she always told me that you can be or do whatever in life, as long as you don't hurt anyone and you're happy. My Mum's great; I adore her.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

People only see as far as they are able and the rest of the truth is lost on them.

But why must choices always lie along a linear spectrum with two poles instead of say among a sphere of possibilities

The prophet Zechariah warns that any nation that touches Jerusalem will be cut off.

I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.

Creativity means not copying.

He had a winning smile, but everything else was a loser.

I wanted something where I could explore comics and music at the same time.

This is all new to me, these re-releases. I don't know how these things do. I don't know if it will be people who saw it originally or young people

I'm not trying to minimize things; I'm trying to bring them back to reality.