Top 43 Quotes by Ciaran Hinds

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 love to get into some comedy, but people keep saying, 'You're not funny!' And I say, 'Well, fair enough.' I have done comedy on stage.

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

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

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.

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

When you find somebody who doesn't give and take, you go, 'Remind me never to work with you again.'

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

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.

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.