When you're stressed out or nervous, the logical side of your brain goes out the window and you have no idea what's happening. But, that is a lot of fun. It feels like you are an action hero.

I always like when things [movies] are loosely based on real events. That always makes it more interesting because there's a lot of research you can do.

I really admire really good reporters. Obviously not the gossip ones, but it could be quite an interesting profession, depending on what you're investigating.

As soon as an actor has faith in a director, he just goes with it.

Tell me, Choi Yoori...are your lips as soft as they look?

It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.

I have lived enough to know great things will unfold for me externally only if I allow them to unfold for me internally.

The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.

We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks

Establish specific objectives, and move steadily toward them. A rudder won't control a drifting boat; it must be underway. Similarly, you need to be moving forward to gain control of your life.

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

We want the National Intelligence, we want the Police, we want the Scorpions, any other institutions, the tax people, and so on, the totality of these bodies, to get together.

Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.

When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!