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.

I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.

I gravitate toward women.

I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the ’70s who are looking for fortune...

And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he...

As you know, Hollywood loves to pigeonhole all the actors and actresses, and suddenly I got ‘re-pigeonholed’ as an action actor.

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

Yeah, well, I finally stopped smoking for good.

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.

I did, although I didn’t read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able...

I’m not supposed to say anything but let’s face it, Jedi knights never die.

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.

I have often found that no matter where I meet people in the world, there is a path that leads back to Queen’s.

Before ‘Schindler’s List,’ I wouldn’t have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.

Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.

I love working with children.

Rihanna is a very talented person. One of those people who are able to do whatever they want with great results.

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.