I don't know that I'm 'hangdog'. That suggests someone skulking around, unengaged. I'm not. I'm 'engaged', believe me. I have just got a slightly sad…

- Stephen Rea

I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of the early 60s and had absolutely no point o…

- Stephen Rea

People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.

- Stephen Rea

I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.

- Stephen Rea

I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my w…

- Stephen Rea

I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one.

- Stephen Rea

I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't int…

- Stephen Rea

I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ire…

- Stephen Rea

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

- Stephen Rea