Irish Quotes

I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.

I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.

I'll be in Los Angeles for two weeks and I'll have a laugh, get battered and have a buzz, but at the end of the day, I'll go home. It's just me earning a few more stories to tell everyone at home and all.

I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.

I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

I couldn't care less about who sees my bits... My friends asked how I could do scenes like that and not get excited, but it wasn't like that. My bits looked the size of a cashew nut!

Anything that's different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it's driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards this character's existence is a big help.

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things.

I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.

It's not that I'm stupid. I just don't think sometimes.

Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it's attractiveness that's born of just the physical attributes that they have - this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor - or whether it is more to do with the way they carry t

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes... And we don't judge and we don't betray. We're not jealous. We're not envious. We're not even weary, which is a danger also as kids. They have to learn a certain amount of awareness.

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

Spare all I have, and take my life.

Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.

Those who know the least obey the best.