I have always had a deep connection with my faith, and I was fortunate to have been brought up in a Christian environment. My faith is a very important part of who I am.

I actually don't know the legality of inheritance in George R.R. Martin's world.

I love the idea of playing a character, to get that chance to be somebody completely different.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.

If someone is lying to you, they'll generally look up to the top right. That means that they're trying to construct an image that doesn't exist.

I have great fun with the Togs - Terry's Old Geezers and Gals. They're a group that formed around me over the years of my radio shows. They are loyal to me and I'm loyal to them, so I've been to their...

Reform and exchange in English poetry are as slow as in the British constitution itself.

I don't believe I'm psychic, but if I can get people to focus on a specific thought, I can hack into brains and figure out what they're thinking.

Getting nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award is a really special one, honestly, because to be acknowledged by your peers and people you admire so much feels extra special.

I think making a documentary gets you out and about more, with people. With stand-up, you're talking at people. With documentaries you're talking with people, and you're listening a lot more.

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'

Brexit is not ideal. I'm famously not a Brexit negotiator, but relations between Ireland and the U.K. have been getting stronger, and a big part of that has been trade and feeling like sister...

I've had losses in my career before, and I've always come back stronger from those losses.

There are two types of session guitar players. One reads and only plays what the 'dots' say. The other adds that something special and plays notes and solos you dream of. Big Jim Sullivan was such a...

To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because...

I was never ideological in any sense, or a slave to any particular politics or religion. My solace and my inspiration always came from books and literature.

I am very quick to judge.

Filming a story set in a war zone in the '60s was such a treat, as it gave me so much scope to dive into.

I am dying not just to attempt to end the barbarity of H-blocks or to gain the rightful recognition of political prisoners, but primarily because what is lost here is lost for the Republic.

There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

I don't do 'Image' magazine or high-fashion shows.

I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

While I don't find Christmas all that difficult, what I do find difficult is New Year's Eve.

I'm sort of pro celebrities for celebrities' sake.

What do you want me to do, rob a bank?

I became a minister of the Eucharist when I was 17. My parents aren't very strict Catholics, but for some reason I decided this is what I want to do, and I have kept it up.

God did not need any assistance, but man did; bitterly he wanted it, and the giving of such assistance was the proper business of a woman.

In that wide struggle which we call Progress, evil is always the aggressor and the vanquished, and it is right that this should be so, for without its onslaughts and depredations humanity might fall...

I don't sing. If I could sing or dance, I would have done something really gross in a G-string by now - when I wasn't working and was desperate - and ruined my career.