Lazy Thinking Is Not Creative Or Productive.

Film Just Chews Up Actors Like Nobody's Business, And I'm Not Particularly Interested In Being Chewed Up. I Think The Camera Can Only Look At Somebody's Face For So Long. I Guess You Have To Accept The Roles You Think Are Right At The Time. You Can Build A Career, But These Days There Doesn't Seem To Be That Much Interest In People Being Actors.

My Dreams Tend To Be Like Dog Dreams. I'm Usually So Tired That I Hardly Dream At All. In A Way, I Do Think That The Zone One Performs In - Without Getting Too Ooga-booga About It - It's Like That Moment When You Wake Up In The Morning And You're Emerging From A Dream State But You're Not Quite Up. Where Are You? Can You Hear The Birds? Or Is That The Traffic? It's That Zone In Which I Perform. It’s Like One Foot In Reality And One Foot In A Dream State. I Spend Most Of My Life In That State!

I'm Partial To A Nice Cup Of Vodka. I Normally Just Drink It Really Simple With A Little Bit Of Lemon.

Violence And Racism Are Bad. Whenever They Occur They Are To Be Condemned And We Should Not Turn A Blind Eye To Them.

It's Part Of My Job. You Can't Play Veronica Guerin Sounding Like This. It Just Wouldn't Wash. But What I Find Fascinating About Doing An Accent - Unless It's A Farce - Is That It's Not Slapped On.