Quotes from Stephen Rea

Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are.

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.

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

I see people with laptops as being enslaved to something they can't live without.