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"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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"In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private."
"I went whole hog at the actor's lifestyle - really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already, because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary - that's the first place I ever did it, in the seminary."
"Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic."
"There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment."
"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
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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."
"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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