I was an OK boxer, I wasn’t great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and...

Kinsey’s quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other.

Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don’t look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist’s soul, my actor’s soul, I could capture something of...

I offer my performance as prayer for someone I’ve worked with as an actor or someone who has died. The image that comes into my head as I walk to the stage, I offer that...

I can always act.

I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn’t understand what being an actor meant anymore.

For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don’t make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you’re told you’re too tall or you’re too...

You think your life is going one way and then suddenly, you’re on another track.

It’s best to keep acting real.

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.

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 friends who have daughters and there’s times I think I’m glad I have boys instead of girls.

But, you know, sex is controversial, it just is and it always will be.

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 think I’m past my due date. I just feel it.

I’d like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I’d need building up, though he’s very frail now.

I’m a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.

Well, I think they’re all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it’s the young man or girl who goes through a trial...

I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. I’m acting. It’s always, ‘When I say you’ll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!?’...

It was quite an intense time in Belfast in 1977 and I remember going to see it in the cinema. It was a very, very dicey area of Belfast. And the cinema was packed. In...

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 keep fit as much as I can.

I don’t think I’m funny.

But let’s just say, I’m Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

I’m still a proud Irishman, of course, but I’ve become an American citizen. I’m very, very proud of that.

I’ve made many films and only a few times I’ve played real people.

In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.

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.

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...

I do tend to gravitate toward what guiding light we have. . . . If I read something that’s got those ethics in it, then I go towards it. We live in such a corporate...

I’ve had an unbelievable life. I’ve been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I’m from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a...

When I see great boxers, it’s like reading a wonderful poem.

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?

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?

I’m very much a homebody.

It’s easy enough to plan jobs, to plan a lot of work.

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 will never become a director or a movie producer. I was always looking at picture directing because I didn’t know what to do! You can’t be a movie director without real preparation.

Indeed I regard the enduring support which I have received over the years from all sections of the community in Ballymena as being more than sufficient recognition for any success which I may have achieved...

It’s a simple story, yet with all the complexities of myth. The technology was so understated. I thought he (George Lucas) was an amazing director who had created this totally believable world.

Getting married and settling down isn’t the most important thing in my life.

I do shadow boxing and use a heavy bag, but I don’t spar with anyone.

I’m constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

It is fun to explore these kick-butt characters.

To be honest, I’m scared to death of rollercoaster rides.

Looking out for your children is an ongoing process throughout your life.

For all of nature’s wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

There seems to be more opportunities for old guys like me to do a little fighting and running because the lead characters also require a bit of depth and maturity and gravitas that one is...

At the Sex Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, they were a phenomenal help, too. We went out there for a few days, and they gave us access to materials. And the biographies, there are four or...

We’re definitely going to do it, … We’ve been working on it since November.