"Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'."
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"One moment cannot be the most important."
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"There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously."
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"A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano."
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"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."
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"I had a ball doing Harry Potter."
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"I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because its repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things."
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"I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take."
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"There's something about the Irish that is remarkable."
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"Now I have begun to get interested in films and I just hope that people start becoming interested in me to do more films."
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"I can hardly decide what plays I should be in."
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"Theater dates very quickly."
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"Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born."
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"A relationship is sent by God and accident."
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"This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone."
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"I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted."
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"The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain."
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"My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin."
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"I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride."
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