Stephen Rea

“I never watch TV. I know I'm missing so much, aren't I? I'm probably not. I can't stand popular TV. I've got too much to do to watch it. I know that sounds pretentious and pompous, but there you are.”

“The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.”

“People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.”

“I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.”

“I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.”

“You do small movies because the script is good and because you believe in the director. You don't care about the money. And when they disappear, it's a pity.”

“At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed to have found a way out of the sectarian division of the country.”

“I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.”

“You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.”