I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.

Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there’s joy there’s its opposite, and it’s something you ride if you possibly can.

Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don’t have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.

From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I’ve learned that nobody’s love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can...

Irish Americans are about as Irish as Black Americans are African.

There’s a lot of Doyle in me. I don’t know where I begin and Doyle ends or where Doyle begins and I end.

I didn’t want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I’m interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.

Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.

A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, ‘I’ve got what I want. What are you going to do about it?’ How would you feel if somebody walked up and...

The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he’s writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious...

Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.

I’m absolutely crazy about fly fishing.

It’s really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you’re going to get it to these people.

As soon as I did, everything, the whole room, just clicked.

I don’t feel ashamed of my wife’s political background, and I don’t think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed....

Essentially the change came, and correctly and properly so, when women finally achieved their biological and financial independence concomitantly.

And then, I suppose, there’s also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.

My depressions aren’t so much… depression’s too heavy a word. I get very down and y’know, boredom is the key to it as I’ve said.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made giving exciting.

Not to sound egomaniac or anything, but just to get under people’s skin like that, and for them to believe in you and believe strongly enough to write… it’s flattering and it helps you during...

I have never been to a brothel. I don’t think I could go into one.

Everything that’s rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the...

I called Kevin Spacey one day about something else, but he didn’t say to me ‘calm down,’ like The New York Times said. Because I was not deranged.

With Field Day, we’d often play places where they hadn’t seen professional actors in 30 years. Everyone in the community would come and see you.

Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight.

Actors, the good actors, always want to talk about what they’re doing, always want to give other people space to do what they’re doing.

I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.

When they first cast me, I was a pretty avid fan and vampire movies and Celtic mythology, so I was excited to get a chance to walk in Doyle’s shoes and have fun with it.

I think great art is always ambiguous and can’t be pinned down.

I do think I feel it but you don’t think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don’t think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived....

I don’t think we’re living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.

You have to know who you are, if you don’t you have nightmares.