When they first cast me, I was a pretty avid fan and vampire movies and Celtic mythology, so I was excited to get a chance to walk in Doyle's shoes and have fun with it.

When you get to speak Irish, you become more at one with yourself, you kind of have a spark when you use it, and I think it's a great dialect.

I am not the Messiah. I am a simple human being with the unlimited power of love and kindness.

A fresh year, a fresh life.

Are you satisfied with you? Great! Are not you? Let's start in the mirror...

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.

My evolution into becoming a photojournalist started with falling in love with literature when I was a teenager, falling in love with novels and imagining a life of being a storyteller.

It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.

AIDS win be our first priority, but in two years' time we don't know where AIDS research will stand, so we are also thinking of activity on other diseases.

My kids get very upset with me when I leave to do film work, but they have a lot of patience with me when I leave to do environmental work.

If there is anything unique about my writing it is the way that I combine poetry and prose, not just on the level of having a poem here, prose there, but that it really is a true amalgam.

Every time I tour military outlets, I dedicate the food, fitness and set-ups to their service, because it all came to me through the military.