I Usually Read A Script From An

I Do Probably 80 Or 90 Per Cent Of The Cooking At Home.

My Old Manager Of The Irish National Theatre Said 'don't Worry About Being A Star, Just Worry About Being A Working Actor. Just Keep Working.' I Think That's Really Good Advice.

If You're Playing A Historical Character That's In The Public Consciousness, Then Obviously You've Got To Make An Effort To Look Like That Person And There's A Huge Amount Of Historical Record There That You Have To Kind Of Comply To.

I Kind Of Have An Interest In All History. And I Suspect It Comes From Being Irish - We Like Stories, We Like Telling Stories, Which Makes A Lot Of Us Lean Towards Being Writers Or Actors Or Directors.

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.'