Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.
In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.
I love doing my own stunts but it's hard.
Yeah, well, I finally stopped smoking for good.
It's an ongoing joy being a dad.
I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner.
For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.
I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.
I try to stay fit. I try and do something every day but I don't jog. My body hates jogging.
Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure.
Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.
I offer my performance as prayer for someone I've worked with as an actor or someone who has died. The image that comes into my head as I walk to the stage, I offer that performance up for that person.
For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.
Yes, I'm Catholic; I'm proud of it. But I had lots of Protestant friends.
Sitting down to eat in our house is about sharing, you know, talking about the day you've had, be it in school or work or whatever, so that's very important to us.
It's interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing.
I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.
The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it's a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another.
I do shadow boxing and use a heavy bag, but I don't spar with anyone.
It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.
