I'm Irish, so I'm messing all the time. Which means, I'm having a laugh. I'm always making jokes.

I think if my child died I would prefer it if I were dead.

Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.

The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.

I try as best as I can to have a normal life. People recognise you, of course, and that's very strange. But I sort of leave my working life behind when I go home. That's my other world.

Everyone thinks I'm ethereal. But I'm not like that, you know. I'm not ethereal. Well, I might have a little bit of that quality to me, that 'old soul' thing, but I'm not ethereal.

If you don't have eyebrows, you don't really have a face.

The 1916 uprising was kind of the most important rebellion in Ireland's fight for independence that had been going on for 700 years. So it's a very important moment in history for us.

I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.

My name means freedom in Irish.

It's too distracting to read about yourself. You want to be perfect and you want everyone to love you, and that's never going to happen.

You can never truly become great if you do not discover your purpose in life.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.

You’ll finally realize the importance of the spark of that diamond once you lost it.

Self-esteem is different than conceit. Conceit is the weirdest disease in the world. It makes everyone sick except the one who has it.

Cash is very easy to hide. It's easy to hoard. It's easy to move, especially these large bills.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

For Colin Firth: You're a really great guy, but I'm married, so I think we should just be friends.

It's been a great honor for me to be a player for the Detroit Red Wings, to play for an Original Six franchise. I know I'm far from perfect, but I learned a lot.

Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.