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"People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
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"I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me."
Death
"Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie."
Film
"My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do."
Time
"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
"People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy."
People
"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."
Acting
"I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down."
Art
"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."
Wife
"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
"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."
Actor
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