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I don't have a motorcar, so I've got to know and be fairly fond of the buses.
I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years.
You get to an age when you lose people close to you.
When you find somebody who doesn't give and take, you go, 'Remind me never to work with you again.'
If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully.
We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.
I'm looking forward to locking swords with Douglas Henshall and working against the stunning backdrop of Shetland. I came to Scotland a lot in the 70s and 80s in various theatre productions and of course to film Hallam Foe but this is the furthest I've ever been.
I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?
Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies.
No nation can claim, 'We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are.'
I quite enjoy more teamwork and offering something up into the mix.
In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.
I don't think I'm very fashionable. I drink a fair amount of Barry's Tea, from Cork - but might that be fashionable? I don't know.
It's so tough to get movies made in Ireland anymore. A whole generation of Irish filmmakers doesn't have the resources to get a movie made.
My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.
I come from theatre and I always go back every couple of years.
There has to be a reason of whether you look right or you bring the emotional or intellectual baggage of what's required for the storytelling. For me, it's not something I've aspired to say, "I'm going to be working in Hollywood."
Casting is very, very important.
The joy of just being involved in something, of being part of a big process, just as a human being, it's nice to be part of people who are in the same enterprise, heading for the same goal, rather than, 'Oh this is all about me and my role. The story's about me.'
Grief is exhausting.
I'll tell you, being on set on 'Harry Potter' was nerve-wracking. It was surreal to be in a room with those three kids, all of whom know exactly what they're doing.
I don't hold much of care for 3D. I think it's a passing fad. It came and went in the '60s. I don't see what it adds to the story.
Conflict sometimes produces results, but more often than not it produces confusion at the level of everybody on the same track.
I've never traveled to promote anything I've been in. I've only been to about two or three premieres. The way I work, I do bits, and then I'm off to something else, whether it's theater or another project.
Grief is exhausting. When you learn - maybe through my age or experience - trying to harness the energy, whatever it is, muted energy or a concentration to find yourself in a place? You try to use it for when it's really necessary and can arrive.
For all the acting you can do, the actual soul of someone does somehow permeate through their work.
My soul is still Irish.
I don't use the word 'artists' lightly.
I never saw myself as being a cop on TV.
You try to work with the director and your fellow actors to get somewhere, but other people are the judge of whether you hit that note right.
Most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.
I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.
I'd never really been in a series, where you see a man at different points and perspectives in his life. Usually it's a film, where I'm playing a character who just comes in and offers something up.
I'm not a comic person at all. It never reached me in the north of Ireland, in the '60s and '70s growing up. We used to get stupid comics like 'The Topper' and 'The Beezer,' things like that.
You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.
I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity.
The freedom to make my own mistakes is all I've ever wanted
I'd love to get into some comedy, but people keep saying, 'You're not funny!' And I say, 'Well, fair enough.' I have done comedy on stage.