A Good Comedy’s Very Hard To Make,

Well, Ive Always Been A Character Actor, You Know, And You Always Get Your Share Of Character Actors Who Are Bad Guys.

I Do Go Back To Ireland, And I'll Probably Be Doing A Film In Ireland In January, And I Guess That Kind Of Keeps Me Classified As 'the Irish Actor,' But The Last Four Or Five Projects That I've Been In Are Either American Or English, So I Don't Feel Terribly Trapped In That. But Sometimes, Yeah, You Would Like To Not Be Called 'the Irish Actor.' You'd Prefer To Just Be Called 'the Actor.'

You Never Know When The Publicity People Will Feel It Is A Good Time To Release The Film.

My Old Manager Of The Irish National Theatre Said 'don't Worry About Being A Star, Just Worry About Being A Working Actor. Just Keep Working.' I Think That's Really Good Advice.

I Kind Of Have An Interest In All History. And I Suspect It Comes From Being Irish - We Like Stories, We Like Telling Stories, Which Makes A Lot Of Us Lean Towards Being Writers Or Actors Or Directors.