Ciaran Hinds Quotes
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I'd love to get into some comedy, but people keep saying, 'You're not funny!' And I say, 'Well, fair enough.' I have done comedy on stage.
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When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life.
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For all the acting you can do, the actual soul of someone does somehow permeate through their work.
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You get to an age when you lose people close to you.
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To be quite honest. I have seen a few things in 3D, and it didn't involve me anymore than when I saw something in 2D.
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It's so tough to get movies made in Ireland anymore. A whole generation of Irish filmmakers doesn't have the resources to get a movie made.
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If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully.
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Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.
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When a play is really cooking, there's nothing like it.
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Most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.
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I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years.
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I don't have a motorcar, so I've got to know and be fairly fond of the buses.
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We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.
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My father was a GP; my mother was a teacher and amateur actress. My father was a bit of a storyteller, but the acting influence must have been from her - yes, put it down to my mother.
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You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.
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I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?
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Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies.
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I'm not a comic person at all. It never reached me in the north of Ireland, in the '60s and '70s growing up. We used to get stupid comics like 'The Topper' and 'The Beezer,' things like that.
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I never saw myself as being a cop on TV.