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...

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 think: ‘Why do I have to do it? What’s it going to prove?’ After all, it’s the work that counts.

I don’t do my own stunts, but I do my own fighting. I don’t consider fighting to be a stunt.

I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.

I loved school.

I’m not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.

I love doing my own stunts but it’s hard.

It’s funny, but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ever have.

Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist?

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.

People ask me if I ever feel outside the Hollywood loop, and I never do, because both of us do a lot of theatre, so it’s great for New York and it’s also half-way between...

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.

I’m absolutely crazy about fly fishing.

I think if you’re the son or daughter of successful actors and actresses, it’s a double pressure. More is expected of you.

Well I think people think sex is controversial. Not always, but certainly it’s something to be discussed.

I’ve never been in a street fight.

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.

I try to stay fit. I try and do something every day but I don’t jog. My body hates jogging.

The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it’s a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another.

You can’t act being a boxer. It’s like being on stage.

I always wanted to be a cowboy, and Jedi Knights are basically cowboys in space, right?

I don’t know if I’m a strict parent or a pushover.

In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I’ll come across a sentence that’s totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I’ll play the scene back in my mind...

I think there must be some other life forms, even if they’re microscopic.

Well, I think I’ve made 44 films and only like four times I’ve played real characters I’m just drawn to people who have a pioneer spirit, this extraordinary energy and commitment to their cause.

Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.

I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.

It’s interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing.

I don’t think that I am a sex symbol, although it’s very flattering.

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.

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.’

Yes, I’m Catholic; I’m proud of it. But I had lots of Protestant friends.

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’m trying to be a comedian, you know?

I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.

America has been very, very good to me.

It’s an ongoing joy being a dad.

Queen’s University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond.

I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed.

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.

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.