When I was younger and in primary school, I'd do maybe a film a year, and I had to adapt to being away from everyone for a couple of months.

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.

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

I think every case is different. Every situation is different. People come on the F.B.I.'s radar screen for a variety of reasons at a variety of times.

The actors I admire are character actors.

I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.

The secret of successful people lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.

If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.

As powerful as our legs are, as magnificent as our lungs and arms and muscles are, nothing matters more than the mind.

...the hard work and poverty of my childhoodturned out to be my greatest asset in later years. Nothing could ever seem too hard after that.