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I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too.
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Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.
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I will never become a director or a movie producer. I was always looking at picture directing because I didn't know what to do! You can't be a movie director without real preparation.
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You think your life is going one way and then suddenly, you're on another track.
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I don't do my own stunts, but I do my own fighting. I don't consider fighting to be a stunt.
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It's easy enough to plan jobs, to plan a lot of work.
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I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.
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Sitting down to eat in our house is about sharing, you know, talking about the day you've had, be it in school or work or whatever, so that's very important to us.
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Looking out for your children is an ongoing process throughout your life.
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Yes, I'm Catholic; I'm proud of it. But I had lots of Protestant friends.
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I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. I'm acting. It's always, 'When I say you'll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!?' Then, 'Yeah, Dad.'
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I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What's it all about?
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Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond.
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America has been very, very good to me.
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Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure.
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I don't think I'm funny.
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In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly.
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It's funny, but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ever have.
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Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene.
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I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering.
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I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.
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As you know, Hollywood loves to pigeonhole all the actors and actresses, and suddenly I got 're-pigeonholed' as an action actor.
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But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.
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A sex symbol? A symbol of sex? I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering. I'm 59, now, so I think I'm possibly past my sell-by date. I think I am.