Ciaran Quotes & Sayings

Courage has a brutal core. — Ciaran Carson

I think a writer should always be surprised; and the more I write, the more it seems that the language itself, when explored with humility, is always deeper and more accurate than what the author thought he had in mind. — Ciaran Carson

Casting is very, very important. — Ciaran Hinds

The freedom to make my own mistakes is all I've ever wanted — Ciaran Hinds

Conflict sometimes produces results, but more often than not it produces confusion at the level of everybody on the same track. — 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. — Ciaran Hinds

Just for a fleeting split second his mind let go of its desperate chant: Nobody can hear me here, and replaced it with a glorious, admirable, proud: Morituri te salutant. — Ciaran O. Dwynvil

Where am I coming from? Where am I going? A fusillade of question marks. — Ciaran Carson

I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. — Ciaran Hinds

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

You get to an age when you lose people close to you. — 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

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

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

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. — Ciaran Hinds

Celebrate Earth Day! A time to recognize the gains we have made. A time to create new actions to accelerate environmental progress. Protect our planet not only on Earth Day, but everyday! — Ciaran Lynch

I grew up watching my Dad, Uncles Ciaran Murray and Brendan Murray, and cousin, Aedin Murray, who were all national caliber Gaelic football players in Ireland. I try to watch as much Gaelic football as I can, it is my first love. I bleed Green, White, and Orange. Gaelic football players don't get paid to play, you play to represent your county that is more important than earning money. — Patrick Murray

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

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

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

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

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

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

Later, he would ask later who Attila was. Now he only wanted Belial's kiss. His heat. His passion. A quick gallop. Frenzied eternity. Insanity multiplied. A perfect, mind-numbing, bone-shattering small death. He wanted it all. Now. Now. Now. — Ciaran O. Dwynvil

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

I quite enjoy more teamwork and offering something up into the mix. — Ciaran Hinds

There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it. — Ciaran Carson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There has to be a reason of whether you look right or you bring the emotional or intellectual baggage of what's required for the storytelling. For me, it's not something I've aspired to say, "I'm going to be working in Hollywood." — Ciaran Hinds

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

When you get down on your knees in front of me it won't be out of gratitude. It'll be because you want to be there."--Ciaran Ross, Killer Curves — Naima Simone

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

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

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

I want to corrupt you, get dirty and rough with you because I know this sexy-as-hell body can take it."--Ciaran Ross, Killer Curves — Naima Simone

I'm looking forward to locking swords with Douglas Henshall and working against the stunning backdrop of Shetland. I came to Scotland a lot in the 70s and 80s in various theatre productions and of course to film Hallam Foe but this is the furthest I've ever been. — Ciaran Hinds

There are three points about stories: if told, they like to be heard; if heard, they like to be taken in; and if taken in, they like to be told. — Ciaran Carson

Then you realize that the preparation and the planning of this small army of people trying to head to the single aim of creating a work that's going to excite people is very risky. Of course, the odds are that it's not going to work out because there are too many possibilities of it going wrong. — 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

Grief is exhausting. — Ciaran Hinds

Ravishment of this slender body in all ways possible before draining it of the life substance? Aren't you a pleasure hoarder, my dear? — Ciaran O. Dwynvil

I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will see in these the likenesses of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, extensive plains; and you will see there battles and strange figures engaged in violent actions. For in such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of church bells, in whose reverberations you may find every word imaginable. — Ciaran Carson

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

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

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

He was talking animatedly to two senior ladies, dressed in enough finery to buy the average home, no doubt. He brought one of their hands to his mouth, and then her friend's. He was such a charmer. I was charmed from here.
"He gets that from me," Feragal growled into my ear, leaving me to Ciaran, now making his way towards me.
I watched him stride certainly all the way to where I waited for him.
"Wow," he said, placing his hand at my waist, grazing his thumb over the detailing of the sash there. I was going to kiss Martha again when I got home.
"I like your sporran." I grinned.
"I like your everything," he countered, leaning in to kiss my cheek. "You look beautiful, Holly."
And I was done for the night. I could spill food down myself, trip over, whatever. The look in Ciaran's eyes was what I'd most wanted from the evening, and I already had it. To tuck away and keep forever. — Anouska Knight

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

I'm not a comic person at all. — Ciaran Hinds

I think the poetry that came out of Belfast, and especially the Queen's University set, in the 1970s and '80s - you know, Paul Muldoon and Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Ciaran Carson - that was probably the finest body of work since the Gaelic renaissance, up there with the work of Yeats and Synge and Lady Gregory. — Adrian McKinty

Ciaran broke the silence and spoke quietly. "She means naught to me."

A tear fell down her cheek and she wiped it away. "It doesnae matter--truly," she whispered.

He reached out and gently brushed her arms. When she closed her eyes to avoid his probing gaze, he raised her chin with his finger. "It matters to me," he said solemnly. He wiped her tears with his thumb. "I told her we were done when I returned to Glenorchy. She wasnae pleased. I didnae know she was there, Rosalia. She saw ye and Aisling and threw her body upon me."

She could not help but smirk. "Her verra bare body, my laird."

He paused for a moment, a spark of some identifiable emotion in his eyes. "I didnae notice, Rosalia. All I saw was ye. — Victoria Roberts

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

If he couldn't appreciate the passion and beauty in you than that's his shame, not yours."--Ciaran Ross, Killer Curves — Naima Simone

My soul is still Irish. — Ciaran Hinds

How do you say a thing at all, at the end of the day? How do you say what's in your mind? And as soon as you say what you actually have in mind, it's wrong, isn't it? — Ciaran Carson

Out here, without the clouds of cigar smoke, there was nothing to compete with the scent of the rich wood panelling, the preparation of savory foods somewhere off in the house and, over that, the subtle sweetness of the more polite Argyll's cologne. It wasn't like the bottle I slipped under Charlie's pillow every Christmas Eve, not quite so familiar. This had a sweeter edge to it, the difference between flowers and berries. — Anouska Knight