We didn't have a television, so I grew up with books. This isn't to suggest I'm an intellectual, but I do read a lot because part of acting is an exploration of literature.

People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.

I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are.

My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do.

At this point in my career, 'Scream' is one of the longest running stories I've told. It's fascinating to still have actors who are very much into continuing their roles and have great chemistry.

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

Scientific careers rely on inheritance, environment, and random events, like all biological phenomena.