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"I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin."
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"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
"Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat."
Actor
"Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger."
Actor
"You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut."
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"I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin."
Ireland
"A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment."
Work
"I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them."
Father
"I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely."
Trust
"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."
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"Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy."
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"I do identify with St. Patrick, not just in name. He drove the snakes out of Ireland. I intend to drive the snakes out of the State House."
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"I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin."
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"My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it."
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"In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish."
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"I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!"
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"It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas."
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