Ciaran Hinds Quotes

You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.

- Ciaran Hinds

That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them.

- Ciaran Hinds

I don't think I'm very fashionable. I drink a fair amount of Barry's Tea, from Cork - but might that be fashionable? I don't know.

- Ciaran Hinds

No nation can claim, 'We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are.'

- Ciaran Hinds

I don't have a motorcar, so I've got to know and be fairly fond of the buses.

- Ciaran Hinds

I'll tell you, being on set on 'Harry Potter' was nerve-wracking. It was surreal to be in a room with those three kids, all of whom know exactly what they're doing.

- Ciaran Hinds

I don't hold much of care for 3D. I think it's a passing fad. It came and went in the '60s. I don't see what it adds to the story.

- Ciaran Hinds

I'd never really been in a series, where you see a man at different points and perspectives in his life. Usually it's a film, where I'm playing a character who just comes in and offers something up.

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I've got a fairly low profile - I go and do me shopping when I need to!

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When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life.

- Ciaran Hinds

I've never traveled to promote anything I've been in. I've only been to about two or three premieres. The way I work, I do bits, and then I'm off to something else, whether it's theater or another project.

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Casting is very, very important.

- Ciaran Hinds

I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity.

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Grief is exhausting.

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Grief is exhausting. When you learn - maybe through my age or experience - trying to harness the energy, whatever it is, muted energy or a concentration to find yourself in a place? You try to use it for when it's really necessary and can arrive.

- Ciaran Hinds

In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.

- Ciaran Hinds

When you find somebody who doesn't give and take, you go, 'Remind me never to work with you again.'

- Ciaran Hinds

I know I don't go looking for directors. I always wonder why they chose me.

- Ciaran Hinds

I'm not a comic person at all. It never reached me in the north of Ireland, in the '60s and '70s growing up. We used to get stupid comics like 'The Topper' and 'The Beezer,' things like that.

- Ciaran Hinds

My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.

- Ciaran Hinds

We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.

- Ciaran Hinds

It's so tough to get movies made in Ireland anymore. A whole generation of Irish filmmakers doesn't have the resources to get a movie made.

- Ciaran Hinds

Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies.

- Ciaran Hinds

If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully.

- Ciaran Hinds

Stuntwork... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself into the air onto a mat.

- Ciaran Hinds

I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years.

- Ciaran Hinds

You try to work with the director and your fellow actors to get somewhere, but other people are the judge of whether you hit that note right.

- Ciaran Hinds

Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.

- Ciaran Hinds

To be quite honest. I have seen a few things in 3D, and it didn't involve me anymore than when I saw something in 2D.

- Ciaran Hinds

I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.

- Ciaran Hinds

I never saw myself as being a cop on TV.

- Ciaran Hinds

I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre, and I always go back every couple of years.

- Ciaran Hinds

My father was a GP; my mother was a teacher and amateur actress. My father was a bit of a storyteller, but the acting influence must have been from her - yes, put it down to my mother.

- Ciaran Hinds

Most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.

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I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?

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My soul is still Irish.

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The joy of just being involved in something, of being part of a big process, just as a human being, it's nice to be part of people who are in the same enterprise, heading for the same goal, rather than, 'Oh this is all about me and my role. The story's about me.'

- Ciaran Hinds

I come from theatre and I always go back every couple of years.

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When a play is really cooking, there's nothing like it.

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I don't use the word 'artists' lightly.

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For all the acting you can do, the actual soul of someone does somehow permeate through their work.

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I'd love to get into some comedy, but people keep saying, 'You're not funny!' And I say, 'Well, fair enough.' I have done comedy on stage.

- Ciaran Hinds