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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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"Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste."

"As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead."

"Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death."

"I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation."
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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."


"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."


"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 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."


"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."
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