I'll tell you what, it doesn't get more beautiful than the west of Ireland. Connemara and County Derry are quite stunning, really.

When you've got a new family, any kind of security you can have is great.

My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.

Obviously if you're playing some of the smartest men in the world, you want to sound really smart.

You spend some time raising a child in London, carrying it around on one side of your body - it puts your back out!

I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.

I felt slightly snobby about the genre. My pre-conceived notion of the comic book world had been: "Oh, that's nothing that I need to worry about!"

When you see a finished film, it's very rare that it exceeds your expectations.

Some actors go, 'Bing!' and suddenly they're being paid huge sums. Me, I seem to get screwed every time.

My dream is to one day own a country house on the shore in England, have gotten married, wipe some debt off and get a few more good films.

If I lived in L.A., I'd be schizophrenic after a week.

When you read between the lines, you must have bloody good eyesight because I can't see a bloody thing!

I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.

Excellence is not a success but a persistent pursuit of perfection.

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

A best friend is your voice when you can't find it.

Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.

We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.

I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

Don't make a hasty movement. Be like a mountain. Move silently and cautiously.