I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a state of constant despair.

I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.

If you have an opportunity to reach people on a broad scale, it's not enough to just entertain people. You have to take responsibility. You has to do something substantial. Otherwise you're squandering what you have.

I couldn't even get an audition for network TV at home in Ireland.

So many Irish actors overplay that modesty because they're afraid people will judge them and say, 'The state of yer man, he thinks he's great,' or whatever.

'Star Wars' was something that I was definitely interested in. Whether or not I was really involved isn't something that I should probably disclose.