This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.

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Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.

One moment cannot be the most important.

One moment cannot be the most important.

There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.

There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness...

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness...

Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be...

To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be...

I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

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

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

I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.

I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

Theater dates very quickly.

Theater dates very quickly.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

My mother taught me to read.

My mother taught me to read.

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade...

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade...

Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state...

Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state...