I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful.

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.

...look up and see the madnessorganized in the stars.

It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.

I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.

Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

In a justly organized community, however, government exists to secure the right to life and the other human rights that follow from that primary right.

If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.

I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.