Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist?

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

The cause of making the world a better place for children unites us all.

There's periods now in our New York residence when I hear the door opening, especially the first couple of years... Anytime I hear that door opening I still think I'm gonna hear her.

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.

You are not what you were born, but what you have it in yourself to be.

I believe that UNICEF is the most important branch of the U.N.; they do exceptional work to help the neediest children around the world

Men fear most what they cannot see.

It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race.

I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.

Northern Ireland is the world’s best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.

You're what I've been looking for my whole life, and if you let me, I'll love you for the rest of yours.

It's okay to be crazy as long as you keep writing and are happy.

People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with.

Besides good schools, a good airport, and the Cowboys, Dallas had golf courses, and golf was fast becoming an obsession with me.

I definitely understood the feeling of moving to Los Angeles and having a dream to be an actor in films and to get to be a part of things that I loved and inspire people in some way.

There are essentially three stages in learning how to meditate. In the beginning you are simply trying to ignore thought.

Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.

Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on Earth as life? It is in this that lies the peculiar interest of Mars.

If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder.

The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase.