My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do.

I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of the early '60s and had absolutely no point of identification with them.

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.

I’ve been worked over by the English press because there’s an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife’s, and for that matter that my wife’s politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.

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

I’ve never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I’ve never been in a play that wasn’t interesting or worthwhile doing on some level.

At least when you’re acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

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

Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil’s first movie and my first movie.

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