It's nice coming from Summerhill, because you don't come from having everything, and what you do get, you appreciate.

Dublin's a great place. It really is. It's a great place. And Ireland, especially, is a great place. I've realized that growing up more. I'm loving my country more as I'm getting older.

I'm good to women. I treat women with a lot of respect.

Acting brings up a lot of the past. I use my memories, whether they're good or bad.

It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS.

If you just do a Google search and type in 'smoking' or 'lung cancer', you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung disease and how COPD is the third leading cause of death and if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die.

No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that on my own.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.