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

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.

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride.

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.

Theater dates very quickly.

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.