 Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th. |
| I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born. |
| I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it. |
| I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland. |
| Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while. |
| A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano. |
| There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true. |
| So I just play the character, I play the lines. |
| People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera. |
| There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing. |
| I certainly had no intention of playing a man. |
| The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain. |
| My mother taught me to read. |
| Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy. |
| To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have. |
| The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns. |
| I had a ball doing Harry Potter. |
| Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time. |
| Theater dates very quickly. |
| This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone. |
