People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one.

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.

That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.

I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie.

I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.

No, thanks, " said Harry. "The toilet's never had anything as horrible as your head down it— it might be sick." Then he ran, before Dudley could work out what he'd said.

I finally stop feeding my mind with toxic thoughts and started nurturing my heart and soul with love instead.

I can weave threads of myself into a tapestry already designed by others.

You can do nothing without prayer and everything with it. Anything worth worrying about is something worth praying about.

The Widdern — the non-magical world, where science rules and many people believe that magic only exists in books. They’re wrong.

Poverty isn't being broke; poverty is never having enough.

Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.

I don't consider myself an actor, for me it's employment. Like the actor who's a waiter a lot, I'm an actor when I'm not on tour, in that that's a job I can do.

To be cool is to believe. To stay cool is to have the sweet fragments of serenity rock your wig away.

I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.