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.

People are absolutely free to criticize the government and protest, but their protests should be in such a way as to improve the situation in the country and their life.

For the bourgeoisie, the main danger against which it had to be protected, that which had to be avoided at all costs, was armed uprising, was the armed people, was the workers taking to the streets in an assault against the government.

She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood.

The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time.