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.

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.