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
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 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
For all the acting you can do, the actual soul of someone does somehow permeate through their work. – 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
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
When I was young I read ‘L’Etranger’ by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life. – Ciaran Hinds
In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is. – 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 float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don’t see them for years. – 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
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
No nation can claim, ‘We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are.’ – Ciaran Hinds
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
When you find somebody who doesn’t give and take, you go, ‘Remind me never to work with you again.’ – 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
