I'm not sure I'll find acting satisfying creatively forever. If you get the good roles, it's great - if you have the freedom to choose your projects and not just do anything and everything. But I'd love to artistically commit to a project from beginning to end, which I think you can only do as a writer or director.
I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.
Acting is where my heart is. I love acting.
Maybe down the road, I can see myself being part of the creative process, but acting is definitely my first and true love.
Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, "God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything." And then you see the close-up and it's so nuanced and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.
I caught the acting bug from my dad.
We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence.
There is a universal element in man which he can assert by so acting as if the purpose of the Universe were also his purpose. It is the function of the supreme ordeals of life to develop in men this power, to give to their life this distinction, this height of dignity, these vast horizons.
I really enjoyed it - being involved in watching rushes and playback [in "The Invisible Woman"]. Ralph [Fiennes] was very open to my input, I think knowing that he couldn't always be there 100 percent, that he had dual aims with directing and acting.
I would work as hard as possible at school so I could keep acting alongside.
Voice acting is very different from live-action. You only have one tool to convey emotion. You can't sell a line with a look. It's all about your vocal instrument. Doing voice work is also great because you don't have to get your hair done, which I despise.
I always enjoyed acting. My aunt was actually an actress.
I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest I really enjoy.
I've never worked with an acting coach, no.
I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.
At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.
I don't want to make decisions about what I'm going to do before I'm doing it because I base my acting off my partner and off the other people in the scene.
That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it.
My tutor was a film director on the side, and she introduced me to film. She then put me in one of her short films, and it came out of that. That's when I fell in love with the process of making a film. After that, I was about 15 and I was like, "This is what I've gotta do." So, I started taking acting lessons, and then I applied to college to do acting. I got an agent, and it all just happened.
I think I always knew I was going to somehow be on a stage. I was quite an extrovert, as a child. And I did a lot of music, when I was younger, so I thought I was going to go into music, but I fell into acting, in a really weird way.
I consider acting a day job - it's not my dream; it's not my be-all, end-all.
Originally, I wanted to do humanitarian work. I actually feel that getting into acting, which fate has led me to, is my window and path into humanitarian work. I always said I want to do something important. And I feel this work is what's helping me get there.
I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.
Outside of acting, the person that I admire the most is my mother.
