I think I do believe in the afterlife; I have heard stories from people who I can completely trust that have seen ghosts.

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.

Jedi are conversationalists and negotiators, bringing people together and solving problems. Jedi listen and feel to what others are saying.

We only radiate the inner self.

Every atom in your body spins and danceslike a bee around the queen, like a whirling dervish, like the stars spiraling in a galaxy.Yet why do you sit motionlessly watching Dancing With the Stars?

The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it.

A man's fate is his own temper.

It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

If you pursue a distancer, he or she will distance more. Consider it a fundamental law of physics.

There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.

The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show youre a great performer.

Postpone not your life.