Football? Forget it. I didn't have that thing inside me where I wanted to smash against somebody and watch them break. I was too sensitive for that and disliked being that sensitive.

Folks can believe what they like but eventually a man's got to declare if he's going to do what is right.

I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.

When accepting or preparing for a role, fear is the motivating factor.

Nothing misleads people like the truth.

I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw.

I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes.

It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things.

Fear - there's always fear. You re-create yourself in every movie, don't you?

My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness.

You might be an interested guy, an interested reported then I get to know you and then I know you're this also and you're this also and you may hide it in a certain way. That's what I love.

She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.

I want to fall into the purity that is Day, soaking in his simple honesty, his heart that sits open and beating on his sleeve.

I realised I'd spent a lot of time in my poetry trying to find a way of talking about that whereof we cannot speak.

We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.

Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.

Yet who shall shut out Fate?

On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.

HAPPINESS is ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED

An important thing to remember about the press is there is no ideological bias.

I can never understand why people who have not seen me for a while ask if I am still writing. They might as well ask me if I am still breathing.