61 Quotes by Ciaran Hinds

Stuntwork... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself into the air onto a mat.

You try to work with the director and your fellow actors to get somewhere, but other people are the judge of whether you hit that note right.

Grief is exhausting. When you learn - maybe through my age or experience - trying to harness the energy, whatever it is, muted energy or a concentration to find yourself in a place? You try to use it for when it's really necessary and can arrive.

Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.

My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.

Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies.

We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.

I come from theatre and I always go back every couple of years.

I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.