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...THE HEALTH SERVICE: "Is it too much to ask that anyone, your father, your mother, your brother, your sister, yourself, are entitled to a private f***ing room at the end of your life? Really, it seems so obvious. Revolutions happen when people get angry enough to say 'that's enough'."
...HOLLYWOOD: "People told me, 'You should have done more films in Hollywood'. Well, I did films in Hollywood and I didn't find them terribly interesting."
...CATHOLIC GUILT: "If you're brought up Catholic, one of the greatest battles you fight is the guilt. It's a form of control. If you have a guilty person in your life, that's a person you can control. Goddammit, if I could live my life over and could get rid of some of the things, I would for sure get rid of guilt. It's a crippling affliction."
...MEETING GREGORY PECK: "I remember sitting in Beverly Hills on a very hot day and he was talking to me about the 1916 Rising, and I was thinking 'Jaysus, I've come all the way from Ireland and here I am sitting talking to Gregory Peck about Patrick Pearse and Tom Ashe'."
...GOING TO THE CINEMA: "It's one of the most satisfying social experiences you can have. You are going into a darkened room with other people, separate yet all together, in that flickering light. It's emotion and ideas and memories and imagination and all the things you can't put a monetary value on."
...THERAPY: "I don't go to therapy. Sigmund Freud said that the one race of people in the world, in his opinion, immune to psychoanalysis were the Irish. Catholicism had predated him by 2,000 years."
...A McCAIN/PALIN PRESIDENCY: "Some say that if you think the Bush presidency was bad, this is going to be the Bush presidency on acid."
