We grew up with a camera in front of us.

I think if my child died I would prefer it if I were dead.

Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.

The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.

I try as best as I can to have a normal life. People recognise you, of course, and that's very strange. But I sort of leave my working life behind when I go home. That's my other world.

Everyone thinks I'm ethereal. But I'm not like that, you know. I'm not ethereal. Well, I might have a little bit of that quality to me, that 'old soul' thing, but I'm not ethereal.

If you don't have eyebrows, you don't really have a face.

The 1916 uprising was kind of the most important rebellion in Ireland's fight for independence that had been going on for 700 years. So it's a very important moment in history for us.

I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.

My name means freedom in Irish.

It's too distracting to read about yourself. You want to be perfect and you want everyone to love you, and that's never going to happen.

Whatever comes your way begets the gift of every circumstance.

The only people in the whole world that Salim loved had been killed by the virus that traveled to America in his own blood.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.

In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.

Art is the lesser sister to medicine. It aims to heal.

An overly pragmatic attitude is not productive on the long run.

Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.