The good guy only gets the girl in a soppy way.

It's difficult to gauge that. With a bad guy you just know you're bad. To play a nice guy is harder - unless you are a very nice person like me of course.

It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.

The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that.

I talked to everyone about the project: actors and extras, members of the crew and passers by.

Now here I am playing a passionate young Irishman who would die for what he believes in.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm to happy being myself.

I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can.

I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.

I'm not really very ambitious.

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.

I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force.

Baddies always do get the best lines, that's the honest truth.

I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful.

When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.

The good guy only gets the girl in a soppy way.

I don't have any expectations as an actor, and being rich and famous is not my driving force.

I'm not really very ambitious. I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful.

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.

If you've worked in Australia, you can't get away with bad behaviour like showing up late. We take our work ethic very seriously.

And let's be clear: It's not enough just to limit ads for foods that aren't healthy. It's also going to be critical to increase marketing for foods that are healthy.

Friends come and go but I wouldnt have thought youd be one of them.

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.

I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.

Pretending to be someone you're not is a waste of the person you are.

Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.

I basically was a precocious little kid.

Our frequent initiatives to normalise relations with Pakistan are not a sign of our weakness; rather, they are an indication of our commitment to peace.

The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.

At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, comprising eleven nations with a population of 100 million people.

It's an audacious thing to build a model of the cosmos. It's exciting how little we know.

I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.

I have a physical background. It's not like I'm a kung fu master, but my real training was dance school, and through that, I move to this thing called Capruera that I used in 'Ocean's 12.' I can pretend that I can do a lot of things, but then, I don't really master anything.

The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.

I thought being in the wheelchair might be kind of limiting for me as an actor. It turned out cool in a lot of ways. Of course, at the end of the day, I can get up out of the chair and go home, but I'm very acutely aware that most people can't, so I try to give the situation that depth.

I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed without the agreement of two-thirds of the members of the United States Senate.

Set Goals, not Limits.

If you say to the White House, 'Obama has been very unfriendly to Israel,' they say, 'What do you mean? It's the best military-to-military relationship ever.' And that part is true.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

Every coin has two sides just like most people have two faces.