As a child growing up in Ireland, you would have to go to Dublin if you wanted to go to the luxury brands. And I remember my mother being too uncomfortable to go into some of those stores. I want to get rid of the barrier.

I feel like if you have balance in life, you have to be consumed by your job because, ultimately, it will never be a job; it will never be something that you feel you're working on.

Acting is about portraying something... that dedication or learning the script of it is really important in really getting to know a topic.

I grew up during one of Northern Ireland's most complex periods.

Increasingly, the Chinese will own a lot more of the world because they will be converting their dollar reserves and U.S. government bonds into real assets.

Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Clean air is a basic right. The responsibility to ensure that falls to Congress and the president.