Quotes by Ciaran Hinds

About Ciaran Hinds:

Ciarán 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 as Road to Perdition, The Phantom of the Opera, Munich, There Will Be Blood, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, The Woman in Black, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance and Frozen. His television roles include Gaius Julius Caesar in the series Rome, DCI James Langton in Above Suspicion, Bud Hammond in Political Animals and Mance Rayder in the Emmy Award-winning Game of Thrones. As a stage actor, Hinds has enjoyed spells with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre in London and six seasons with Glasgow Citizens' Theatre. Adding to his New York Broadway theatre performances, Hinds starred in a production of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Big Daddy in early 2013.
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You get to an age when you lose people close to you.

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

Ciaran Hinds

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

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

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

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

When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life.

Ciaran Hinds

My soul is still Irish.

Ciaran Hinds

I never saw myself as being a cop on TV.

Ciaran Hinds

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

Ciaran Hinds

Casting is very, very important.

Ciaran Hinds

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

Ciaran Hinds

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

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

I know I don't go looking for directors. I always wonder why they chose me.

Ciaran Hinds

I don't use the word 'artists' lightly.

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

If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully.

Ciaran Hinds

I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre, and I always go back every couple of years.

Ciaran Hinds

Author Bio

  • NameCiaran Hinds
  • DescriptionIrish actor
  • AliasesCiaran Hinds
  • BornFebruary 9, 1953
  • CountryIreland
  • ProfessionActor