Top 61 Ciaran Quotes
#1. 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
#2. If he couldn't appreciate the passion and beauty in you than that's his shame, not yours."--Ciaran Ross, Killer Curves
Naima Simone
#3. 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
#4. I don't have a motorcar, so I've got to know and be fairly fond of the buses.
Ciaran Hinds
#5. Conflict sometimes produces results, but more often than not it produces confusion at the level of everybody on the same track.
Ciaran Hinds
#6. I quite enjoy more teamwork and offering something up into the mix.
Ciaran Hinds
#7. 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
#8. 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
#10. When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life.
Ciaran Hinds
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.
Ciaran Hinds
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. I've got a fairly low profile - I go and do me shopping when I need to!
Ciaran Hinds
#19. 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
#20. Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies.
Ciaran Hinds
#21. 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
#25. 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
#27. No nation can claim, 'We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are.'
Ciaran Hinds
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully.
Ciaran Hinds
#31. I come from theatre and I always go back every couple of years.
Ciaran Hinds
#32. When a play is really cooking, there's nothing like it.
Ciaran Hinds
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. For all the acting you can do, the actual soul of someone does somehow permeate through their work.
Ciaran Hinds
#36. There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.
Ciaran Carson
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. You get to an age when you lose people close to you.
Ciaran Hinds
#40. 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
#41. When you find somebody who doesn't give and take, you go, 'Remind me never to work with you again.'
Ciaran Hinds
#42. Where am I coming from? Where am I going? A fusillade of question marks.
Ciaran Carson
#43. 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
#44. The freedom to make my own mistakes is all I've ever wanted
Ciaran Hinds
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.
Ciaran Hinds
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years.
Ciaran Hinds
#58. 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
#59. In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.
Ciaran Hinds
#60. I know I don't go looking for directors. I always wonder why they chose me.
Ciaran Hinds
#61. 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
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