This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.

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

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.

Bullshit takes no genius, even fool senses its' foul.

what u know will make u known.u cannot rise beyond what u know

I would rather see a school produce a happy street cleaner than a neurotic scholar.

Ask your father to convince you, not to go your way. You will win, i bet.

Win told me that one isn’t improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb.

I learned quickly that when I made others laugh, they liked me.

It (the Bible) has never bowed its head before the discoveries of science.

I could never have done what I did without being involved with Lindsay Kemp's company.

A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word.

And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone