- Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning.
- Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.
- 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.
- But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.
- Every cliche about kids is true they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.
- For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.
- Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.
- I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.
- 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 to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.
- 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 don't think I'm funny.
- I gravitate toward women.
- I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.
- I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.
- I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. I'm acting. It's always, 'When I say you'll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!?' Then, 'Yeah, Dad.'
- I was an OK boxer, I wasn't great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too.
- 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 as an actor.
- It's an ongoing joy being a dad.
- It's funny, but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ever have.
- 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.
- To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.
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