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I'm the third or fourth generation of actor in my family; I'm sure if they were butchers, I'd be a butcher, too.

I go in the butchers and there's not a lot of meat I can eat these days, with having all the animals.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

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.

Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.

I used to go to Sheen High Street with my dad on a Saturday, and there was a butcher next door to the fishmonger. I hated the smell of the fishmonger, but I found the smell of the butcher's much more appealing. And I liked the big knives. I thought it looked like a decent job.

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

I have very good knife skills. I learned to butcher on my second job - I was 18 years old. Every other day we would break down six legs of veal.

My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I didn't enjoy it at the time but I love cooking now, so perhaps I would have been a chef.