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"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."
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"Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it."
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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."
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"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."
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"Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor."
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"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."
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"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."
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"I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important."
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"I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better."
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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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"If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is."
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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."
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"People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy."
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"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."
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"I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down."
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"I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion."
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"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."
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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."
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"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."
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"Acting is way of making yourself exist."
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"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."
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