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.
I always wanted to be a cowboy, and Jedi Knights are basically cowboys in space, right?
I don't think I'm funny.
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 came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.
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.
I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved t...
Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.
I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.
It's an ongoing joy being a dad.
I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.
For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.
But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.
Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.
I gravitate toward women.
I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.
It's funny, but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ever have.
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.
To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.