We had nothing, no television, no RADIO, nothing to get in the WAY. We read by the streetlight at the TOP of the LANE, and we ACTED out the stories.

Dean had just COME from seeing his LAWYER. That was the first TIME that I found out that he had consulted a lawyer. He WANTED to tell me what he THOUGHT was going on, but he was writing it down as if my house was bugged. He acted like everything was bugged.

Though I acted in HUNDREDS of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I DISCOVERED in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the AUDIENCE, the eight shows a week and the POSSIBILITY of a LONG run were all unnatural to me.

I never REALLY acted at school. It was doing small parts on TV that really got me STARTED.

I think that when we look at something that's WELL ACTED and a STORY that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a CULTURE, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.

I KNOW that I and my office ACTED with the highest INTEGRITY as an independent inspector general should act.

I NEVER have been an anarchist, I've ALWAYS had GOALS and always have ACTED out of LOVE.

I acted for so many YEARS and SAT on a million sets and worked with a million DIFFERENT directors so that is to me some of the best TRAINING you can get.

I HOLD that the beginning of modern IRISH drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a PUNCH and Judy show; and the delighted CHILDREN went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman.

I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely AMAZING relationship with my MOTHER in that we've been through a myriad of EMOTIONS because we've acted TOGETHER and played all these different KINDS of mother-daughters.

I have ACTED on some MOVIES that have martial ARTS ELEMENTS, but I'm not a PROFESSIONAL.

So most of my acting experience came in COLLEGE when I was LIVING away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff LIKE that.

I've ACTED just to GET to DIRECTING.