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The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it's a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another.
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I've never been in a street fight.
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I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that.
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Well, I think I've made 44 films and only like four times I've played real characters I'm just drawn to people who have a pioneer spirit, this extraordinary energy and commitment to their cause.
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It's easy enough to plan jobs, to plan a lot of work.
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It is fun to explore these kick-butt characters.
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I've had an unbelievable life. I've been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I'm from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a ditch, I always think, 'That's real work.'
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I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.
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I think I'm past my due date. I just feel it.
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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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I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the '70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don't want to sing in front of anybody.
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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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I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?
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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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I was an OK boxer, I wasn't great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.
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I love working with children.
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And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.
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I love doing my own stunts but it's hard.
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I keep fit as much as I can.
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The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.
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But, you know, sex is controversial, it just is and it always will be.
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It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.
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Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other.
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At the Sex Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, they were a phenomenal help, too. We went out there for a few days, and they gave us access to materials. And the biographies, there are four or five, ranging from very poor to excellent.