There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.

The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.

Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.

Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration.

The joy of 'The X-files' is how it plays on so many different realities never knowing what is the truth and what is the deception. So my approach to my character has always been that we are alive and have always been alive and were never 'killed off' but held a fake funeral in 'Jump the Shark' to get the heat off of us.

In my own life, I have found grief to be enormously distorting, particularly if it's sudden or extreme in nature.

Pressure and protest is fine, but using fear and threats to force politicians to sing to a certain tune will be the death of our democracy.