Your version of the truth is all that matters.

Baddies always do get the best lines, that's the honest truth.

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realized I'd become an actor.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

I'm not really very ambitious.

I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force.

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.

I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.

When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.

It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.

I hate books they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Do not expect much from humans. Expect much more from God.

What others are doing or accomplishing is irrelevant to your growth.

You think you have a handle on God, the Universe, and the Great White Light until you go home for Thanksgiving. In an hour, you realize how far you've got to go and who is the real turkey.

I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

You will not be stuck forever. The trick is to know there are no tricks. There is, in fact, no easy way. There is only the work.

Hubris and science are incompatible.

Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once.

You can only analyze the data you have. Be strategic about what to gather and how to store it

People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before.