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I don't like no confusion.
I'm very director oriented.
I'm horribly self-critical.
We all have our limitations.
Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.
I think fame makes people a bit nervous.
I certainly don't see myself as Caligula.
The truth is rarely true and never simple.
Everyone I've ever played has been flawed.
I have done quite a lot of outsider figures.
If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.
I don't know whether I inspire anything in anyone.
I am really the victim of other people's imagination.
I've never felt that anger is a very powerful emotion.
Human beings are very good at adapting to what happens.
Once you've started to dig a hole, you can't get out of it.
I'm not accustomed to doing films without seeing the script.
People are not what they seem to be according to their looks.
We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.
Not everyone wants to see children's films, comics, and supermen.
I find it hard to imagine that anyone could be intimidated by me.
The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.
I'm very much of the opinion that to work is better than not to work.
Film is not literature - the image on screen is the information you get.
I've done lots of films with first directors, so it's not unusual for me.
If I hadn't been a part of [Harry Potter] I would have been deeply upset.
As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.
My surname certainly suggests a man whose destiny has always been injury.
The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.
I think it's interesting to see how things come into and go out of fashion.
I love the uilleann pipes and listen to Ronan Browne who's an uilleann piper.
Everybody's got to work with Roger Corman. You can't leave out that experience.
I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.
I gave up religious thinking a long time ago and am really just an agnostic now.
I've never known what I've wanted to do. I've never planned anything in my life.
I'd love to be one of those people who, whenever you see them, you feel pleased.
I like entertaining. I adore it. I feel I'm in the right place. Without question.
I don't care about the length of anything I play, as long as it's a good character.
We're all far too afraid of being so arrogant to say "Either you can or you can't."
Everything that came to me, in terms of the ritzier side of performing, was a plus.
I've done all sorts of children's things before, but none as big as 'Harry Potter.'
I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.
Really, I'm only alive out of curiosity. I'm very curious about where we're all marching.
Lotte Lenya was all emotion. She wasn't anything but emotion. She was not an intellectual.
Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.
I was completely crazy and mad when I was young. I was absolutely in love with the dissolute.
There are certain people that when they ask you to do a film, you just say, "Where and when?"
I don't like it when people shout on stage without any particular reason. It carries no weight.
One thing that is likely to make you lose touch is if you keep in touch with the past too much.
People say you never retire in this [film] business and I say, well, not until they retire you.