I need to learn every day..

The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?.

I like to push myself beyond the limit every now and again..

Never fall out of love with life.

The only real failure is the failure to try..

I think you can teach people a technique - you can teach them how to use their voices, how to breathe properly, how to move their limbs a certain way….

In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no c….

We get up in the morning. We do our best. Nothing else matters..

I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination..

Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff..

Everything, every part that you approach has to be somehow rooted in yourself. You have to somehow root everything so that it's not just words coming….

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it..

Every experience that you experience yourself you use, because that's our craft..

It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient..

I don't really want to retire. I intend to go on working as long as I can because I still have a huge amount of energy..

Don't think I am going to let Bob Hoskins take all his clothes off and me not take a look? I just had a quick look up and down, like you would..

People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth..

There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it..

I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whomever it is p….

The secret of my success is my mother, who was from Dublin. All my relations are in Dublin or in the west, or as I found out, we went to Rostrevor in….

Children have become disengaged from nature and we need to reintroduce them to the pleasure that it brings. If we do that they will care for it. Thro….