I like Guinness, and that will make anyone Irish. That and soda bread, and I'm good to go.

It never occurs to me that acting with a superstar is something to worry about. I figure the bigger the better because more will be demanded of me.

It's a very neurotic time we live in, this postanalytical period where everybody goes to a shrink to solve their problems.

I think when you're younger, as an actor you have much more of a notion that you are doing something to the audience. But with experience, I think you begin to worry less about what the audience's experience is and concentrate on working with the other actors, and that tends to let the audience do more work.

Ease is something that I think many admire in other people, in sports or whatever it may be.

We don't think of them as acting, but we take on certain characteristics based on where we function, and those relationships draw out aspects of who we are as people. And that's what acting is. Different parts draw out different parts of your nature.