Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.
From Ciaran Hinds
Grief is exhausting. When you learn - maybe through my age or experience - trying to harness the energy, whatever it is, muted energy or a concentration to find yourself in a place? You try to use it for when it's really necessary and can arrive.
Stuntwork... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself into the air onto a mat.
For all the acting you can do, the actual soul of someone does somehow permeate through their work.
You try to work with the director and your fellow actors to get somewhere, but other people are the judge of whether you hit that note right.
In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.
I don't think I'm very fashionable. I drink a fair amount of Barry's Tea, from Cork - but might that be fashionable? I don't know.
When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life.
Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies.
I never saw myself as being a cop on TV.
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