 Acting is a very satisfying way to make a living but it's not life. I don't want to spend my life on movie sets and wake up at 70 and say "Where's my life gone?" I know people like that and I don't want to end up like that - the horror of being somebody that the movies sucked dry.
- (on the abuse he suffered at 11) I was taken advantage of in a very vulnerable situation where I was being told the facts of life. Physical boundaries were crossed, let's say. (The inappropriate contact involved...) touching and closeness rather than anything more overt than that. I would never have thought to tell my parents because, in the world of a child, I assumed that anything that happened to you was inevitable. What makes this inappropriate behavior so despicable is that the child does not have a choice.
- They say that acting is the shy man's revenge and cinema certainly is the refuge for a lot of lonely, shy people. You can be alone and not lonely in a cinema. It's almost like being in church.
- Would I have been better off as a teacher in Ireland or Spain? It's a very difficult question to answer. You take the road and you travel along it. I probably would do the same thing again.
- Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
- I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.
- I would like to break out of this "dark, brooding" image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. In Ireland, brooding is a term we use for hens. A brooding hen is supposed to lay eggs. Everytime somebody says "He's dark and brooding" I think: "He's about to lay an egg."
- A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
- It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'
- I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.
- "I'm more susceptible to the past than the future,"
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