When I can't get the character out of my head, and I'm in my bedroom and I start to actually act out the scenes that I've read in a script, I think okay, I really want to do this.

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.

Sometimes is necessary to fall from grace to teach indecent.

Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.

We have a lot of ships coming in and transmitting to us and bringing the information. So, it's very powerful.

I think there's no purpose for writing music if it is not meaningful.

One real world is enough.

All my time in rehab has made me appreciate tennis more than ever.

Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less.

World will prosper in knowledge and intellect, if both men and women are deemed equal.

You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy: happiness, joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.