Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?

There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress

To people outside, they think, Gee, that's great. You get to go here and there. The other side of that is our expression, This is location, not vacation

I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect.

I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off.

While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing

I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state

In this industry, the new owners prefer to kill anything they weren't responsible for.

You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.

I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me

I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense period of time. I'm with them every minute of the day

Not “Revelation” – tis – that waitsBut our unfurnished eyes –

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

Only weak thinkers do not love the sky.

It was my dad's idea to change my name from Sahatciu to Ora. He said it would be easier to pronounce.

Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.

We play it differently now. If we did the album now it would be different.

All experience is great providing you live through it. If it kills you, you've gone too far.

Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.

No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.

When someone changes your face, it's really shocking and scary.