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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.
Ciaran Hinds
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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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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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I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years.
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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'll tell you, being on set on 'Harry Potter' was nerve-wracking. It was surreal to be in a room with those three kids, all of whom know exactly what they're doing.
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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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In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.
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When a play is really cooking, there's nothing like it.
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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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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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I've got a fairly low profile - I go and do me shopping when I need to!
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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'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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I never saw myself as being a cop on TV.
Ciaran Hinds