Irish - Actor | February 9, 1953 -
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
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Stuntwork... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself into the air onto a mat.
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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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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.'
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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'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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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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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.
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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.
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In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.
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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.
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