Top 43 Quotes by Ciaran Hinds

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.

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

I come from theatre and I always go back every couple of years.

My soul is still Irish.

I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity.

I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.

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.

I'd never really been in a series, where you see a man at different points and perspectives in his life. Usually it's a film, where I'm playing a character who just comes in and offers something up.

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.

You get to an age when you lose people close to you.