My mother taught me to read.

Sometimes he’d get annoyed at it, want to be left alone, wished he’d gone skateboarding, but mostly not.

It was the most exciting sentence I’ve ever heard,” Lydia said. Reaching out, she stroked the back of Jean’s hand. “In front of your friends, to call me your love.

Acting doesn’t have to be threadbare misery all the time.

I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There’s no second take.

Once you’ve done one style, you leave it for a while.

I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I’m bored by it.

There’s something about the Irish that is remarkable.

Also, an area that interests me – and it will probably take years to state what I mean – is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.

I’m not afraid of chaos and I’m happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I’m going.