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"Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger."
Actor
"I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work."
Work
"I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin."
Ireland
"I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time."
Money
"I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you."
Feelings
"On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it."
Trust
"I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely."
Trust
"The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up."
Work
"Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat."
Actor
"My father was absent and he was a hero to me."
Father
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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
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"Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb."
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"I am still seeking to become firmly established as an actor."
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"You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain."
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"I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right."
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"A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills."
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"I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright."
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"I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be."
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"I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director."
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"I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different."
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