 And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life. |
| I love working with children and this young boy, Thomas Sangster, is quite a remarkable young actor. He raises your game, you know. He certainly raised mine. |
| Yes, I'm Catholic; I'm proud of it. But I had lots of Protestant friends. |
| Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life. |
| I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry. |
| I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday. |
| Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning. |
| Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago. |
| It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race. |
| In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know? |
| Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist's soul, my actor's soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man. |
| But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist. |
| People ask me if I ever feel outside the Hollywood loop, and I never do, because both of us do a lot of theatre, so it's great for New York and it's also half-way between Europe and the west coast, so it's the best of both worlds. |
| I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now. |
| And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me. |
| Yeah, well, I finally stopped smoking for good. |
| It's interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing. |
| But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime. |
| Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene. |
| Sitting down to eat in our house is about sharing, you know, talking about the day you've had, be it in school or work or whatever, so that's very important to us. |
