Quotes from Ciaran Hinds

Stuntwork... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself into the air onto a mat.

In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.

To be quite honest. I have seen a few things in 3D, and it didn't involve me anymore than when I saw something in 2D.

We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.

Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies.

It's so tough to get movies made in Ireland anymore. A whole generation of Irish filmmakers doesn't have the resources to get a movie made.

I've never traveled to promote anything I've been in. I've only been to about two or three premieres. The way I work, I do bits, and then I'm off to something else, whether it's theater or another project.

For all the acting you can do, the actual soul of someone does somehow permeate through their work.

You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.

My soul is still Irish.

My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.

You try to work with the director and your fellow actors to get somewhere, but other people are the judge of whether you hit that note right.

My father was a GP; my mother was a teacher and amateur actress. My father was a bit of a storyteller, but the acting influence must have been from her - yes, put it down to my mother.

When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life.

In fact, most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.

Most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.

I'm not a comic person at all. It never reached me in the north of Ireland, in the '60s and '70s growing up. We used to get stupid comics like 'The Topper' and 'The Beezer,' things like that.

I don't use the word 'artists' lightly.