Ciaran Hinds Quotes
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My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.
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In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.
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I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.
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I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre, and I always go back every couple of years.
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I've got a fairly low profile - I go and do me shopping when I need to!
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I'd never really been in a series, where you see a man at different points and perspectives in his life. Usually it's a film, where I'm playing a character who just comes in and offers something up.
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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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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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I don't have a motorcar, so I've got to know and be fairly fond of the buses.
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You get to an age when you lose people close to you.
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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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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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If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully.
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We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.
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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 never saw myself as being a cop on TV.
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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.