Honest hearts produce honest actions.
A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.
I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.
Well, Ive always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.
I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we like telling stories, which makes a lot of us lean towards being writers or actors or directors.
I do go back to Ireland, and I'll probably be doing a film in Ireland in January, and I guess that kind of keeps me classified as 'the Irish actor,' but the last four or five projects that I've been in are either American or English, so I don't feel terribly trapped in that. But sometimes, yeah, you would like to not be called 'the Irish actor. ' You'd prefer to just be called 'the actor. '
The digital revolution has changed the way we do things because you're not under that pressure that film is precious and film is expensive.
one sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.
The president and the executive branch are always going to have greater latitude and greater authority when it comes to protecting America because sometimes you just have to respond quickly and not everything that is a danger can be publicized and be subject to open debate, but there have to be some guardrails.
I didn't want to be treated like a 'star. ' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.