People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.
I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has more character.
When you're playing the part of a saxophone or a trumpet player, both of which I have done, it would be nice to be able to play like John Coltrane, but you can't. Your job is to do something else. And I'm not sure what it is, but I don't think I'd be acting Niels Bohr any better if I went and studied physics for five years.
Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie.
My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do.
I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level.
I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are.
At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed to have found a way out of the sectarian division of the country.
I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one.
I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.
The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.
I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.
I'm not in denial about technology, but my mother used to say when I was a kid, 'Son, you're handless,' because I couldn't fix anything. My ambition is to be a Luddite.
Acting is way of making yourself exist.
At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?
I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.
I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.
I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.
People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.
