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My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.
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A relationship is sent by God and accident.
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This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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Theater dates very quickly.
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I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
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The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
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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.
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I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.
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I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.
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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.
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I had a ball doing Harry Potter.
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I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.
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I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
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People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
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There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.