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.

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.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

Imran Khan says 'End your ego, think of nation

You're a dangerous fool who should be sent west, " he told the unconscious man. "You have forgotten the face of your father.

Four laughs vibrate in harmony, WarmDeliciousReal.

To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'

Entrepreneurialism is supposed to be fun!

To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time.

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts

I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.

Without faith you can't see a miracle; you just see unexplained events.