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"I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting."
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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
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"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."
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"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely."
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"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better."
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"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."
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"The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself."
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"While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it."
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"Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting."
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"I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on."
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"Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly."
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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."
Ambiguity
"I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting."
Acting
"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."
People
"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."
Acting
"I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down."
Art
"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."
Actor
"At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?"
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"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."
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"Acting is way of making yourself exist."
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"Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie."
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