There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.

The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

The gulf between their world and hers had manifested itself, however much they'd meditated on how to ball her, and remained.

I do not admire greatness that has no substance.

It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.

Can the "word" be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.

Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.

Be happy and be satisfied. Find fulfillment in everything you do.

Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.

Mix me with violence, blend me with peace, Combine me with hate, and I can't face defeat.

Three thousand, it's just a number. It's just a game

Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree.