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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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"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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"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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"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."
Personality
"And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor."
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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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"This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all."
Idea
"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."
Character
"And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true."
People
"Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience."
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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."
Ireland
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