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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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"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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"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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"I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin."
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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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"Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy."
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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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"The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films."
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"It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake."
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"The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted."
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"Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character."
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"With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling."
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"Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody."
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"The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting."
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"To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably."
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"People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it."
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"When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear."
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