Ciaran Hinds Quotes

• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• You get to an age when you lose people close to you.

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• We’ve seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.

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• Sometimes, there’s not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies.

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• No nation can claim, ‘We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are.’

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• 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.

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• I’m not a comic person at all.

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• I never saw myself as being a cop on TV.

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• I know I don’t go looking for directors.

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• I don’t use the word ‘artists’ lightly.

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• I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don’t see them for years.

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• I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.

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• I come from theatre and I always go back every couple of years.

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• Grief is exhausting.

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• Casting is very, very important.

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Ciaran Hinds (18)

Birth:	9th February, 1953
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Actor

About

Ciaran Hinds is an Irish film, television and stage actor. He has built a reputation as a versatile character actor appearing in such high-profile films. Hinds lives in Paris with his long time partner, Helene Patarot; they met in 1987 while in the cast of Peter Brook's production of The Mahabharata. They have a daughter, Aoife, born in 1991.

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