You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

Friendship is like an investment

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

Commitment is doing the thing you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you.

Caution is the path to mediocrity.

The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.

While the Beatles always had George Martin around to clean up their act, the Rolling Stones had Andrew Loog Oldham to coarsen theirs.

Some people think that acting's about being somebody else and I don't. I think this is how I would be given the same circumstances. And I do it for my own enjoyment.

Security comes from earning it-not seeking it.

I'm ballsy. Well, sometimes I'm ballsy.

There are leaders and there are those who lead. Leaders hold a position of power or influence. Those who lead inspire us.