I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which is where my family is from - in Ireland.

I can't control how people are going to react. I try not to worry about what I can't control.

Life is hard for everyone. That's why there's such a nice reward at the end of it.

I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved.

I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.

I had to bring myself back down to being a normal person again.

I'd wear clogs, short pants and ladies' bracelets. I created this aura for myself.

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

There's certainly more work for me in TV these days.

I don't get any parts I don't get offered. There are lots of great things out there I would like to do that I don't get offered.

I'd sneak out of the house to meet girls at 3:30 a.m.

To share your food with your neighbour is a kind act of bonding.

In our springtime there is no better, there is no worse.Blossoming branches burgeon as the must.Some are long, some are short.'Stay upright.Stay with life.

Imagination only fails us in the end, when the stories we tell ourselves have to stop.

Kind words and tender affections will not save me from this lake of woe and misery, but they may be enough of a buoy to prevent my drowning.

I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.

Every team that I've gone to has had trouble winning games. I guess that's what I've been put on this earth to do, to fix it.

When we graduated from college and law school, we had a mountain of debt.

The core problem is not that we are too passionate about bad things, but that we are not passionate enough about good things.

If today were your final day of this life, would those things causing you stress still do so?

A man should always be drunk, Minnie, when he talks politics - it's the only way in which to make them important.