At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.

I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one.

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.

That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.

I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.

Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie.

I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.

Leaders know how to set priorities. They focus on the task that requires the most rapid attention.

We choose our present moment. The choices we make here and now is what shape our reality tomorrow.

The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.

If you want to get rid of Rose then fine, I’ll take care of it. But I don’t think that is going to solve your problem. You’ll still be here. And you are your problem.

We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.

I could not accept from wisdom what love taught, woman is perfect.

A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love.

Self-congratulation pleases only the speaker.

I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.

People don't understand what term "selling out" means. To me selling out means if I were to stop doing this and go work for McDonald's then I would sell out.