I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

The cause of making the world a better place for children unites us all.

There's periods now in our New York residence when I hear the door opening, especially the first couple of years... Anytime I hear that door opening I still think I'm gonna hear her.

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.

You are not what you were born, but what you have it in yourself to be.

I believe that UNICEF is the most important branch of the U.N.; they do exceptional work to help the neediest children around the world

Men fear most what they cannot see.

It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race.

I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.

Northern Ireland is the world’s best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.

Wherever you go, warm that place and people with love and kindness.

There comes a point where you need to lose your religion in order to restore your relationship.

Embrace the weather, child, and you'll understand the balance of the world.

Hee that is in a Taverne thinkes he is in a vine-garden.

I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour...I always felt that was too young of an age for that.

Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.

You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive.

Everyone has this conjecture that action films are somewhat less prestigious than dramatic films. Nothing could be further from the truth. I've done them both and this is hard and dangerous.

One of the great purposes of religion itself is being hindered by an exclusive-ism that doesn't take into account the common elements and values that we actually share.