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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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"The Sims is kind of an interesting case because we had all these expansion packs. We were able to incrementally add on and explore without invading the core dynamic or the core game play."
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"What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion."
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"We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage."
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"You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile."
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"We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that."
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"When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!"
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"I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience."
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"All I ever wanted to do was play the drums; I felt good about myself when I played the drums. So I worked anywhere and everywhere I could lug my drums in."
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"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."
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"I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along."
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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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