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There was a beautiful church where I lived in Navan, taught by the Christian brothers: fierce, angry men, repressed.
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I'm an artist, so I love the graphic design of Instagram.
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Clive Owen would be a fantastic James Bond. Any man who does it will have to weigh his odds - whether he can get in and get out.
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I think if Roman Polanski had asked me to do the phone book, I would have said, 'Yes.'
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The Danes and the Irish have a great simpatico, that's for sure.
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I'm not a politician or political animal.
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I'd love to do 'The Expendables.' It's just a kick in the pants.
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I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.
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I am the actor that I am. I do what I do. I've been a 'leading man' playing romantic leads for a long time now.
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Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond: there is no question about that. But it's a different Bond. It's the cross pollination of 'The Bourne Identity' and 'James Bond;' that kind of style of filmmaking.
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I think that genetically we're programmed to battle each other.
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I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved.
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Being some country lad from the banks of the River Boyne, I never wanted to be wealthy. I was driven by artistic intention.
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Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.
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We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.
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Susanne Bier's work I've always really enjoyed. She's just such a great filmmaker; she's very cool and very sexy - that always helps, too.
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I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.
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It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them.
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There's a wonderful stable of directors I've worked with, and work I've done that has dignity and meaningfulness.
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The films that I've made with my company Irish DreamTime are close to my heart. 'The Greatest' being one of them, and 'Evelyn' being another.
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I like playing thieves.
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I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.
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I enjoy the company of my fellow man and woman, and I do not wish to be sequestered away in any type of bubble.
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A man becomes what he dreams. And I dreamed of being in the movies. I was brought up on Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, and Cary Grant.