When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.
As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.
I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.
I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.
I didn't get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who've inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster.
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.