Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I want to get a wolf and an eagle.
Boxing is something I'm very into.
I want stories that tackle things.
'Intermission' was my favourite film.
Foster care was a big part of my life.
I want to play someone like Billy the Kid.
I look like a kid onscreen in most movies.
Chris O'Dowd's a legend, isn't he? I like him.
Dior makes me look good, and I make Dior look good.
I'm good to women. I treat women with a lot of respect.
I've stayed friends with the boys I've known since I was 10.
I've actually eaten in The Ivy in London. I love their shepherd's pie.
With this acting and this lifestyle, your privacy does get taken a little.
Boxing isn't a career. Acting is it for me. But they're both very therapeutic.
I always believed that I could be one of the greatest actors of my generation.
You kind of know what kind of reaction a Yorgos Lanthimos movie is going to get.
I kick myself that I don't speak Irish. Ah, man, I'd love to. I am going to learn.
Everyone wants to be Batman; I want to be Robin. I'll make Robin cool. Make him legit.
I'm trying to keep a good record and do interesting movies with interesting filmmakers.
It is hard to keep your head sometimes. I just make sure I surround myself with good people.
I want to not settle for one thing. Because I come from a place where I have nothing to lose.
I thought I was going to be a footballer or a boxer or something like that - I was into sports.
I hope I inspire younger ones. Whatever you're into - sports, whatever - just go and do something.
It's a hard thing to find in people: to sit and just be present with someone, even for two minutes.
I do reach out to lads that I know who are my age: people like Charlie Plummer or Timothee Chalamet.
It's not often you get to sit in front of Nicole Kidman in your boxers with a big bowl of spaghetti.
Acting is not a thing where I'm from. Finishing school is a big thing. Not a lot of people finish school.
It's very important for me to show younger kids that when opportunities are there, you have to jump on them.
To be honest, I still get awestruck when I meet my heroes and the people I admire. I think that's only natural.
It's nice coming from Summerhill, because you don't come from having everything, and what you do get, you appreciate.
My nanny took me in at 12 with my brother, who is a year younger than me. We're the closest brothers you'll ever meet.
This industry can take you in and spit you out. It's overwhelming. But I keep my feet on the ground, my Air Max on the gravel.
I've been lucky to be educated by watching the old and the great movies, working with good filmmakers, and being educated on sets.
Where I'm from, you focus on finishing school. Even finishing college is seen as a stretch - you just get a job after school, and that's it.
Sometimes a camera comes out and people freeze up a little, and I'm like that with normal cameras, but with a film camera, I feel different.
People can get lost in the movie star world. They can't check in with reality, whereas I live at home with me girl, surrounded by real people.
All I would say is it doesn't matter where you come from. Like, Jim Sheridan comes from the inner city, and he's one of the top ones, a top lad.
I want to produce. I want to direct. I want to be my own camera man. I want my own boxing club. I have it all written down. I want to do everything.
In any inner city, there's not a lot of opportunities, and you really have to dig out and chase what you want to do, 'cos it's not handed to you, so.
Getting involved with 'Black 47' was like getting involved with 'Dunkirk' for me. I learned a lot. But 'Black 47' was my own history from my own country.
Where I'm from, to do acting is not heard of. Being one of the lads and all, you don't just go, 'Oh, I want to be an actor'. They'd laugh and joke about it.
I grew up in Summerhill in Dublin's inner city, and I came across an open audition, and they were looking for inner city kids who had not acted. I signed up.
Every actor wants to show a good and deep range, so you look at all the elements here, and you make a conscious choice of where you want to go as a performer.
Anyone dying is not easy, but certainly not a mother. Me and my brother, we stuck together. The foster families were good to me, and then my nanny took me in.
I was a mess-up in school, a big mess-up. I was into history and English, because there were always stories, like 'Dracula' and World War II. I've never read a book, though. Never.
After everything I've been through - the foster care, the losing my parents and stuff like that, I was never one to kind of go, 'I'm gonna just not try.' I used it all as ammunition.
Dublin's a great place. It really is. It's a great place. And Ireland, especially, is a great place. I've realized that growing up more. I'm loving my country more as I'm getting older.
I just think the more you're in front of camera, the better: my main aim is just to tell the truth, be natural, and believe in what I'm doing, and hopefully that comes across as a rawness.
I want stories where you either hate it or love it. I want to do movies like that, where it's not show and tell, where it's not, 'This is it, and now you reveal the ending, and that's that.'
One day, you're talking with Tom Hardy; the next day, you have Nicole Kidman kissing your feet. I never thought I'd be able to say that in my lifetime, Nicole Kidman kissing my feet. It's mad.