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ציטוטים
Being Irish is very much a part of who I am.
I take it everywhere with me.
(On people who drink tequila) I tell them,
'When you're at home puking your guts out, I'll be here drinking my
Amstel Light.'
I couldn't care less about who sees my bits
... My friends asked how I could do scenes like that and not get
excited, but it wasn't like that. My bits looked the size of a cashew
nut! (on appearing nude in Tigerland (2000)).
[on physical training for film roles] I find
it the most tedious waste of life. It's so boring. I'd prefer to be
sitting in a pub with a few strangers talkin' shit than looking at myself
in the mirror runnin' on the treadmill.
It all goes back to [Joel Schumacher]. I
wouldn't have done Phone Booth (2002) without him. I wouldn't be doing
Hart's War (2002). I probably wouldn't have done American Outlaws (2001)
if he hadn't picked me out of obscurity. I've worked, but not at the
level or people I'm working with now if he hadn't taken a chance on an
Irish kid playing a Texan.
I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't
have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd
destroy yourself.
On Hollywood: I'm not seduced by it all. I
swear to God. I'm easily pleased, yeah. Don't get me wrong, I'll indulge
in it. I'll be in Los Angeles for two weeks and I'll have a laugh, get
battered and have a buzz, but at the end of the day, I'll go home. It's
just me earning a few more stories to tell everyone at home and all.
It kind of went downhill, I was smoking a
bit of reef. You know, you roll your first joint, drink your first beer
and discover the girls and, well, that was it. I loved football, but I
couldn't make the training any more - on his football aspirations as a
youth.
I do have the ability to explore life and to
be over the moon at the smallest thing - a few pints and a craic in the
pub and I'm in heaven. But I have a melancholy side to me as well.
Acting allows me to feel things, it kind of buys me human experience.
And I don't mean this as acting as higher cause, because it's not, but
it does kind of have a higher awareness emotionally.
I work my arse off. I'm never late, ask
anyone. I'm only 27. I don't feel like a big star. I feel neither the
pressure nor the grandeur of my situation, you know. I think I'm still
trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery,
but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.
I'm just a true Irish boy at heart. I'm just
myself, I stick by my guns and I treat people the way I think they
should be treated, regardless of their status. And I just have a laugh.
(On the girl that will interest him) The
usual obvious bullshit. Sense of humor, a bit of danger, good fun. A
good heart is a really sexy thing. All women have the potential to be
sexy and it's nothing to do with the dress someone wears or the make-up
they put on their face, it's the aged-old cliche saying: 'What comes
from inside'. God, I've met gorgeous women who I'd fancy and give one
to, but at the end of the day they're not particularly sexy because they
haven't got much going inside and they are too concerned with
themselves. And then I've met women who wouldn't be as nearly as
attractive and, because of the sense of fun they have and their joi de
vivre, as they say, they'd be much sexier and you'd fall for them in a
nanosecond.
I couldn't care less
about who sees my bits... My friends asked how I could do scenes like
that and not get excited, but it wasn't like that. My bits looked the
size of a cashew nut!
I
think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't
brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a
lot.
I'll
be in Los Angeles for two weeks and I'll have a laugh, get battered and
have a buzz, but at the end of the day, I'll go home. It's just me
earning a few more stories to tell everyone at home and all.
I don't go to the gym or practice yoga. And the closest thing I have to a nutritionist is the Carlsberg Beer Company. I just have the appetite of a pigeon.
I'm
in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map.
If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.
I'm
just a true Irish boy at heart.
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