Now I have begun to get interested in films and I just hope that people start becoming interested in me to do more films.

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.

The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.

I wouldn't change a thing about what I've done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.

One important element of leadership is taking care of the troops.

I took six months off, finished high school, and hung out with friends.

I can't believe I'm comforting a billionaire.

The less we know the more we suspect

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

We're only as sick as the secrets we keep.

The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep #‎ trust .

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

If you read the Qur'an with your head, you find repetition. If you read it with your heart, you find depth.