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Some people think my singing is superb. But they're mainly on strong medication and not allowed out much.
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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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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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For me, acting is doing.
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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 thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved.
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I'm not a politician or political animal.
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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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The Danish filmmakers are a unique breed of filmmakers, with the Dogme films and Lars von Trier.
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Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.
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The Danes and the Irish have a great simpatico, that's for sure.
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I like playing thieves.
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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 can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.
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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 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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Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.
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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'd love to do 'The Expendables.' It's just a kick in the pants.
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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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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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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.
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He's a fantastic actor, Kelsey Grammer. You don't have that kind of career without having a talent, without having something to say and to give to an audience.