I, like many people, had some sort of preconception about Madonna. One of the preconceptions was that she had the extraordinary work ethic, which turned out to be absolutely true.

Baddies always do get the best lines, that's the honest truth.

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realized I'd become an actor.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

I'm not really very ambitious.

I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force.

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.

I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.

When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.

It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.

Faith reveals the potential.

The Show Must Go On!

Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses

Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.

I'll take account of things at the end of the season. Now I'm expecting a good finish to the league season.

I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan poetry.

When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool. Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything.

We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.

If you play in the NFL and start for 10 years, it's not good. It is not good.