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"I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along."
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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
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"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
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"I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved."
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"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."
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"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."
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"I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like."
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"I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain."
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"Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell."
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"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."
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"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely."
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"I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion."
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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."
Death
"Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie."
Film
"My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do."
Time
"The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way."
Ambiguity
"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."
Time
"I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along."
Acting
"I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting."
Acting
"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."
Politics
"I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level."
Play
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