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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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"Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile?"

"Want to play baseball?' she asked. Shane's eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. "What?' "First base,' she said. "You're already there.' "I'm not running the bases.' "Well, you could at least steal second.' "Jeez, Claire. I used to distract myself with sports stats at times like these, but now you've gone and ruined it."

"I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming."

"I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have."
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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."


"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."


"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."


"I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me."


"I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago."


"I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion."


"At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?"
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