Ciaran Hinds Quotes
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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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When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life.
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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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In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.
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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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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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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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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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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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When a play is really cooking, there's nothing like it.
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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 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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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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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'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.