I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one.
From Stephen Rea
I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.
I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.
I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.
I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level.
My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do.
People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.
That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.
The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.
The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
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