When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.

I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.

Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.

My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.

I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky.

I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.

I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.

It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.

I just want to be rich and famous.

Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.

People change. Life changes. It's the way of the world. Maybe it's meant to be.

Maybe its because i rejoice over what i have and don't grieve over what i don't have".

You start with a darkness to move throughbut sometimes the darkness moves through you.

A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.

Being the chief minister of a regional government is just a pastime compared with the hellish job of being prime minister of two different communities brought together.

I got born in the wrong family.

I think mascara is a must. If I'm going to wear makeup somewhere, and I'm doing it, it's usually really simple - it's just mascara and maybe a tiny bit of eyeshadow, but that's it.

I dreamt of being like Ronaldo and Ronaldinho Gaucho.

I'm interested in people's darker side, the ones that aren't easy and well balanced. The cracks.

I am climbing to the top Of the tallest darkest tree I need to know Where heaven stops What lies Beyond the dream