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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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"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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"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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"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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"Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy."
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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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"The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water."
Feelings
"If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate."
Art
"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
"So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket."
Work
"So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career."
Career
"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."
People
"When you're a child you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor."
People
"The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted."
Truth
"It doesn't need to be a number one show, it just needs to be good."
Needs
"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."
Experience
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