My father was absent and he was a hero to me.

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.

The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up.

I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.

A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.

I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely.

It helped me when I decided that we're on this planet to learn to live together and get along.

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.

God’s strength is made perfect in weakness. The weaker I became, the more powerful became the preaching.

The scientists who attack mainstream religion, rather than striving for peaceful coexistence with it, damage science, and also weaken the fight against fundamentalism.

Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

I'm trying to move an aircraft carrier here, I'm not just steering the speedboat.

It's a very big deal to me to remain the same person because I know all of this is going to be gone one day and I'm just going to have myself.

When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around me.

Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand.

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)

The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.

My problem is that all things are increasingly interesting to me