My name means freedom in Irish.

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

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

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.

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.

They emanate an essence of caring, love, and compassion towards the people they know, and generously extend their aura to the new people they encounter.

I'm always open to somebody else having a better idea, but I feel like, if it feels real, then people aren't thinking about it and they're just doing the acting of it.

Flowers are reincarnation. They come out of the earth of our ashes. Nothing else looks so soul-like.

If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy.

It may look impossible, but God can do the impossible. Just because you don’t see anything happening doesn’t mean God is not working

Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.

Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family.

I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear seven inch heels, four foot wigs, and skintight dresses?

Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?