I've been dealing with so much press for Brooklyn, and now I am rehearsing for a play, and it is hard.

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.

A man who tells you to follow him will turn his followers into his company, while a true leader who does not tell you to follow him, will sit in the company of his followers.

Belief, Faith, and God do not ask you to follow them blindly. Choose it with all your heart!

Isn't it ironic that when you accept sadness is an inevitability of the human condition you feel happier?

Dying a thousand deaths in my head to protect you is better than losing you one time in the flesh."~ Gustaf Ræliksen

Misery and poverty of a nation does not depend on how fertile their land is but the fertility of their thoughts.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.

ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

Re raising kids: Love, without discipline, isn't.

The defining factor [for success] is never resources; it’s resourcefulness.