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

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 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.

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

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.

No girl can forget the day she lost her virginity, or the circumstance that led to it

Learn to express your creativity... Your monkey-mind will hate it

Sometimes a homeland becomes a tale. We love the story because it is about our homeland and we love our homeland even more because of the story.

When Millennials face turmoil, they don’t just need answers from God, they need God.

Reading makes a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.

So if you have a grandma Thank the Good Lord up above And give Grandmama hugs and kisses For grandmothers are to love.

To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.

When someone really respects and admires us as musicians to the extent that they want to work with us, it's really flattering.

And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost forever in the mists of the Summer Sea.

One single great player doesn't make anything for a team; it has to be a team. I think [American] football is the greatest team sport there is because you have to depend on your brother next to you.