One of the things that would steer me away from a franchise is that I'm playing the same character all the time and I wouldn't want to be known for that.

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.

My name means freedom in Irish.

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.

When, despite considerable intelligence, a thinker cannot think straight, it becomes very likely that he cannot face his thoughts.

...one can never leave home...one carries the shadows, the dreams, the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes...

To smile pleasantly is to own the moment fully.To think pleasantly is to enjoy the moment fully.

Surrender is the only path to supernatural living.

It was my turn to be silent while a small family of moments crossed my path, single file, from the left, sticking their tongues out at me.

To be the announcer where you live is a very special opportunity.

It seems a fine line between being a matador and being a rodeo clown

I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.

I think the best beauty trick is to take good care of your skin. Wash your face at night, wear sunscreen, and hydrate.

I want somebody athletic, outgoing, at least two inches taller than I am, rugged, very outdoorsy, a leader, someone who would overpower me.