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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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

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

I've got a fairly low profile - I go and do me shopping when I need to!

Ciaran Hinds

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

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...

Ciaran Hinds

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.

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When a play is really cooking, there's nothing like it.

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

I don't have a motorcar, so I've got to know and be fairly fond of the buses.

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In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.

Ciaran Hinds

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

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

Ciaran Hinds

We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.

Ciaran Hinds

When you find somebody who doesn't give and take, you go, 'Remind me never to work with you again.'

Ciaran Hinds

For all the acting you can do, the actual soul of someone does somehow permeate through their work.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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Author Bio

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