My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

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.

My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed colour, is seen as black in America. So that's how I regard myself.

You can all go to hell. I’m going to Texas.

What you have done causes things to happen. Your situation in life now has been caused, is predicated upon, your previous actions. That is karma.

I began to practise day and night, and the more I did, the more I was overwhelmed by the tremendous achievement of that great family of black American musicians I was beginning to know closely.

The day I saw my mom eating the Santa cookies on the plate was one of the most horrific days of my life.

Leadership is character in action.

IT+IT=IT; Indian talent + Information technology = India Tomorrow

The Christian is a person who makes it easy for others to believe in God.

I dont want to be easily defined.

Whatsoever is done in charity, however small and of no reputation it be, bringeth forth good fruit.