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

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 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.

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

I spend most nights at home falling in love with the idea of you.

When you can show concern about what matters to your customer, that's Business to Customer Loyalty, and you can bet on it, you've just acquired a customer for life.

If E.F. Harriman paid me what he's paying those guys to stop me from robbing him, I'd stop robbing him.

In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

Motherhood informs my work 100 per cent.

Those who know when it is enough will not perish.

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.

Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity.

Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.