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I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.
I don't do my own stunts, but I do my own fighting. I don't consider fighting to be a stunt.
I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.
Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.
Girl Rising reminds us that educating the girls of today is an investment in everyone's tomorrow.
I have friends who have daughters and there's times I think I'm glad I have boys instead of girls.
We live in an age where revenge seems to be the most important thing for individuals and countries.
It's interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing.
I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.
You traveled the world... Now you must journey inwards... to what you really fear... it's inside you.
Northern Ireland is the world’s best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.
I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that.
If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them, and stab them in the heart.
Well I think people think sex is controversial. Not always, but certainly it's something to be discussed.
It's funny, but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ever have.
The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.
I have often found that no matter where I meet people in the world, there is a path that leads back to Queen's.
Rihanna is a very talented person. One of those people who are able to do whatever they want with great results.
If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.
Every time I see Anthony Hopkins I think that, to some extent, he has just been getting away with it all these years.
The population of America is roughly 300 million and there are 300 million guns in this country, which is terrifying.
The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it's a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another.
I think if you're the son or daughter of successful actors and actresses, it's a double pressure. More is expected of you.
I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner.
If I get rejected for a part, I pick myself up and say, 'OK, not today, maybe tomorrow I'll get this other part or something.'
As you know, Hollywood loves to pigeonhole all the actors and actresses, and suddenly I got 're-pigeonholed' as an action actor.
Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning.
I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What's it all about?
I believe that UNICEF is the most important branch of the U.N.; they do exceptional work to help the neediest children around the world
It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.
In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?
It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race.
Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.
Forget the statistics...we have to do more. You cannot look these children in the eye and see how desperate is their situation without wanting to help.
I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too.
Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene.
I love working with children and this young boy, Thomas Sangster, is quite a remarkable young actor. He raises your game, you know. He certainly raised mine.
But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime.
I learned my "facts of life" on toilet walls. I'd walk up in school bathrooms and there would be crude drawings and figures engaged in sex. That's how I learned.
I don't think for this generation, but for my generation and my father's generation, men had difficulty in accessing emotion and then being able to talk about it.
Sitting down to eat in our house is about sharing, you know, talking about the day you've had, be it in school or work or whatever, so that's very important to us.
Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.
I do believe at the end of the night when you're with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning.
We're all always acting. You need to be able to sit in silence and not beat up on yourself. It's hard to say to yourself, 'You are human. Welcome to the human race.'
You just get this profound feeling of instability . . . the Earth isn't stable anymore and then it passes and it becomes more infrequent, but I still get it sometimes.
And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me.
A sex symbol? A symbol of sex? I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering. I'm 59, now, so I think I'm possibly past my sell-by date. I think I am.
I'm keeping myself to myself. And I like it that way. I'm not hunting. I'm the opposite of a - what would a male cougar be? Is there such a thing? Whatever it is, I'm not that.
There's periods now in our New York residence when I hear the door opening, especially the first couple of years... Anytime I hear that door opening I still think I'm gonna hear her.
But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.