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If you are a Northern Irish actor, maybe subconsciously more than consciously, you do have an instinctive responsibility at some point to tackle the recent history of where we have come from. It's not only a responsibility, but a privilege.
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I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.
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My nightmare is that I don't want to be OK.
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I never forget that I'm extremely fortunate.
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I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds.
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There will only ever be 13 dwarves in 'The Hobbit' - and I was one of them. If I had my time again, would I do it? Yeah, I would.
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Love your parents, but don't have them as your mates.
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In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.
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I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from the Troubles.
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I actually started out on the stage as a singer.
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A lot of people of my Ulster Protestant background would have been very suspicious of the notion of a film about Bloody Sunday. Our fear would have been that it would be terribly anti-Britain and anti-soldiers: a piece of nationalist propaganda.
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I've never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I'm a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on, look at me. I'm really Desperate Dan.
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New Zealand is a place where you can get well.
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Producers get very jittery about things.
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There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.
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We have to get behind the scientists and push for a dementia breakthrough. It could be that we fear dementia out of a sense of hopelessness, but there is hope, and it rests in the hands of our scientists.
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I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke.
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I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.
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'Spoilt' is a euphemism for 'loved.'
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While I've never 'phoned in' a performance, I think I have given some performances where I could have been a bit braver.