Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.
I know something about life and being a father and the worries and the fears of bringing up children.
Being a widower is not that groovy when you lose someone you really love, and you have to go out and date again.
I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.
In 1981, I borrowed 2,000 pounds - a lot of money back then - paid 50 quid for a seat, packed my own sandwich, and hopped on a plane to America. It was a mighty leap, but one that paid off. A week later, I got a job called 'Remington Steele.'
My mother gave me boxing gloves; I wanted boxing gloves. I liked to box. So I still have them. They're still in my bookcase, very old, tattered, and they were cherished.
Someone like Roman Polanski comes with a lifetime of achievement, cinematically.
I have some wonderful suits in my closet, a lovely car, some refined watches.
I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.
I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'
There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies.
When I got the invitation to be part of 'The Ghost' or 'The Ghost Writer,' as it's now known, from Mr. Roman Polanski, my interest level was very piqued. I was very excited and pleased to get such an offer from Mr. Roman Polanski.
There's always been product placement in Bond movies.
I have not had any plastic surgery in any shape or form. No implants. And my hair is not dyed.
I love color. When I paint, I use a lot of color. I love art that has a vibrancy of color and compositions. I adore the Impressionists, and I'm influenced strongly by them as a self-taught artist.
I just find that you can become a very boring person living in L.A. I tell you, living there on a day-to-day basis is vacuous: terribly fake.
For me, acting is doing.
I held the generous, strong, beautiful hand of my first wife Cassie as ovarian cancer took her life much too soon.
Love means that everything is right with the world. Love and only love. Love means that you are content within your own heart and in the presence of the person that you love, who fills your day and makes you stronger and wiser, and gives you the confidence to go out into the world. Love is just the most beautiful, joyous feeling.
I should like to think that we'll find peace on this Earth at some point and come to a collective consciousness of compassion for each other, where we say, 'Enough! Let us live as one!'
I'm a journeyman actor.
You want to believe in leaders, really believe in leaders. You want what they are saying to be truthful, and you want to trust them.
It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.
Sometimes, I wonder where my place in this town called 'Hollywood' is - and that can give you a really dull headache.
We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.
I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society.
Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.
There was a beautiful church where I lived in Navan, taught by the Christian brothers: fierce, angry men, repressed.
I think that genetically we're programmed to battle each other.
I visit London several times a year. It is my home away from home.
Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond: there is no question about that. But it's a different Bond. It's the cross pollination of 'The Bourne Identity' and 'James Bond;' that kind of style of filmmaking.
God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear.
When I went to America, I spoke so much about who I was and gave so much away in a confessional, Irish, story-telling way that I suddenly realised I had given up a lot of myself. I had to shut up.
I'd my own insecurities while portraying the role of James Bond.
You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father.
Must whales and dolphins be subjected to deafening noise that will cause more than 3.5 million instances of temporary and/or permanent hearing loss? For species that depend on hearing for survival - to find food, migrate, and communicate - any hearing loss could be catastrophic. As one scientist noted, a deaf whale is a dead whale.