Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share.

I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner.

If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them, and stab them in the heart.

You traveled the world... Now you must journey inwards... to what you really fear... it's inside you.

It's interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing.

The cause of making the world a better place for children unites us all.

Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society’s understanding.

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.

Northern Ireland is the world’s best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.

We live in an age where revenge seems to be the most important thing for individuals and countries.

Men fear most what they cannot see.

I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.

You are not what you were born, but what you have it in yourself to be.

Nothing brings you closer together than blind terror.

On his fight scene with Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones: It was a delicious experience.

Less racist now but it has been. I don't think it's been completely stamped out. There's a class element to it. And who's supposed to do what. You're very unlikely to get a gay grip.

I don't know if there's a problem with original ideas... I think a healthy film industry should have a good supply of good, original writing.

To work effectively in a film, you have to repeat and work consistently. Basically, you shoot a big master then you do close-ups. You're supposed to be in the same moment, the same 30-second moment, for a day.

Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.