They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe. Ah, if an adult could only act as a child does with that insane, playing-at-toy- soldiers concentration!

I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.

My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday.

I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.

I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Life is in the living. Love is in the giving.

Because the Chinese insistence on one child, I think the proportion of older, non-working age population is going to rise sharply in China.

A starving army is actually worse than none.

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

An early flourish of confidence is useful. Then there's the small crudities - the slubs and bumps that come with outdoor work - the odd charm of imprecision.

A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right-minded man without forethought or with reserve.

When the Internet arrived in Ireland... it was like having Amsterdam's Red Light District in your own living room.

I kept buying bigger and bigger jeans, and once the size 14s got too tight, I thought: 'That's it. I'm not buying the next size'.