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"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."
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"What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife."

"And I'm as attached to my wife as anybody can be to another human being."

"We can't thank Dave enough. He could call me if my wife was about to have a baby and tell me he needed tonight for his show and I'd find some way to get her to let me head to New York."

"My wife and I have always trusted each other, and I have to thank her strength."

"A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife."
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"The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way."


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"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."


"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'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."


"That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere."
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