My Old Manager Of The Irish National

Even In Drama, I Like To Try To Find The Humor Because I Think It's Very Human. Even In The Depths Of Dreadful Situations, There's Usually Something Rather Comic, Or Something You Can Laugh About Afterwards, At Least.

I Do Go Back To Ireland, And I'll Probably Be Doing A Film In Ireland In January, And I Guess That Kind Of Keeps Me Classified As 'the Irish Actor,' But The Last Four Or Five Projects That I've Been In Are Either American Or English, So I Don't Feel Terribly Trapped In That. But Sometimes, Yeah, You Would Like To Not Be Called 'the Irish Actor.' You'd Prefer To Just Be Called 'the Actor.'

I Usually Read A Script From An Audience Perspective First, And Then Look More Closely At The Character Only.

You Never Know When The Publicity People Will Feel It Is A Good Time To Release The Film.

I Suppose I Look For Humor In Most Situations Because It Humanizes Things; It Makes A Character Much More Three-dimensional If There's Some Kind Of Humor. Not Necessarily Laugh-out-loud Type Of Stuff, Just A Sense That There Is A Humorous Edge To Things. I Do Like That.