“I was an OK boxer, I wasn't great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.”
“Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.”
“For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.”
“I always wanted to be a cowboy, and Jedi Knights are basically cowboys in space, right?”
“I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.”
“I don't do my own stunts, but I do my own fighting. I don't consider fighting to be a stunt.”
“Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.”
“I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.”
“If I get rejected for a part, I pick myself up and say, 'OK, not today, maybe tomorrow I'll get this other part or something.'”
“In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.”