I like to learn about things.
It must be hard interviewing actors.
The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.
I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.
I don't torture myself. And I do the work because of the pleasure involved. I'm satisfying a compulsion I find nigh-on irresistible. It's not necessarily because of the work itself. I just feel the need for a period of regeneration afterwards. Like leaving a field fallow when you've grazed too much on it. I feel depleted.
I broke things to get attention.
God knows, I haven't always been successful.
I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.
I like to cook things very slowly.
I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.
You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin.
I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.
Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
I became conflicted in my late teens.
It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands.
I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father...
I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.
I'm not actually a big musical fan.
When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.
