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"I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting."
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"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."
"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'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 believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion."
"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 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."
"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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