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.
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.
If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them, and stab them in the heart.
Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.
Kinsey’s quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other.
It’s interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing.
I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the ’70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don’t want to sing in front of anybody.
In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I’ll come across a sentence that’s totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I’ll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong – I should’ve opened the door more slowly.
I was an OK boxer, I wasn’t great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.
Looking out for your children is an ongoing process throughout your life.
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.
Rihanna is a very talented person. One of those people who are able to do whatever they want with great results.
It is fun to explore these kick-butt characters.
The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it’s a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another.
Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.
Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist?
You can’t act being a boxer. It’s like being on stage.
And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone’s life.
I love working with children and this young boy, Thomas Sangster, is quite a remarkable young actor. He raises your game, you know. He certainly raised mine.