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Foster care was a big part of my life.

Anyone dying is not easy, but certainly not a mother. Me and my brother, we stuck together. The foster families were good to me, and then my nanny took me in.

It's a hard thing to find in people: to sit and just be present with someone, even for two minutes.

Where I'm from, to do acting is not heard of. Being one of the lads and all, you don't just go, 'Oh, I want to be an actor'. They'd laugh and joke about it.

I want to produce. I want to direct. I want to be my own camera man. I want my own boxing club. I have it all written down. I want to do everything.

One day, you're talking with Tom Hardy; the next day, you have Nicole Kidman kissing your feet. I never thought I'd be able to say that in my lifetime, Nicole Kidman kissing my feet. It's mad.

That's why I don't live in L.A. First of all, I don't have the money. But second, I want to stay grounded, to be surrounded by real people, to have my head on my shoulders instead of losing track of reality.

I'm always wanting to do the impossible.

I look like a kid onscreen in most movies.

I want to play someone like Billy the Kid.

I've been lucky to be educated by watching the old and the great movies, working with good filmmakers, and being educated on sets.

Dublin's a great place. It really is. It's a great place. And Ireland, especially, is a great place. I've realized that growing up more. I'm loving my country more as I'm getting older.

Boxing isn't a career. Acting is it for me. But they're both very therapeutic.

Acting brings up a lot of the past. I use my memories, whether they're good or bad.

I have confidence. I don't know where I got it from.

This industry can take you in and spit you out. It's overwhelming. But I keep my feet on the ground, my Air Max on the gravel.

I hope I inspire younger ones. Whatever you're into - sports, whatever - just go and do something.

My nanny took me in at 12 with my brother, who is a year younger than me. We're the closest brothers you'll ever meet.

I wasn't stupid, or very smart. I didn't finish my education.

Where I'm from, you focus on finishing school. Even finishing college is seen as a stretch - you just get a job after school, and that's it.

After everything I've been through - the foster care, the losing my parents and stuff like that, I was never one to kind of go, 'I'm gonna just not try.' I used it all as ammunition.

I think I would've found myself in the arts somewhere along the lines. If you're creative, you find something, eventually.

Every actor wants to show a good and deep range, so you look at all the elements here, and you make a conscious choice of where you want to go as a performer.

I'm trying to keep a good record and do interesting movies with interesting filmmakers.

With this acting and this lifestyle, your privacy does get taken a little.

All my foster homes were very good to me. But it's still not a very nice experience. It's only when you're older, you realise: we were on our own in there. As kids, you don't know what's happening. You're here. Then you're in the next house. But the families were all very good to us.

I do reach out to lads that I know who are my age: people like Charlie Plummer or Timothee Chalamet.

Getting involved with 'Black 47' was like getting involved with 'Dunkirk' for me. I learned a lot. But 'Black 47' was my own history from my own country.

I did Christmas plays at school, but they banned me because I was messing about. And I was like, 'Ah, why?' Because I was getting attention, everyone was laughing at me and I was loving it, I thought, 'This feels good!'

Sometimes a camera comes out and people freeze up a little, and I'm like that with normal cameras, but with a film camera, I feel different.

I just think the more you're in front of camera, the better: my main aim is just to tell the truth, be natural, and believe in what I'm doing, and hopefully that comes across as a rawness.

I don't think you ever really get used to it, do you? There's always another little level of shock in it and of being starstruck at the people you meet. And that's the beauty of it: you're always fascinated, because it's not a normal thing to do, is it, this acting game?

You kind of know what kind of reaction a Yorgos Lanthimos movie is going to get.

It's not often you get to sit in front of Nicole Kidman in your boxers with a big bowl of spaghetti.

I can play younger. It's better to be playing younger because you've got that experience, and it's hard to play older when you're younger.

I started getting interested in the craft and watching old movies, and they're the ones that reach out to me the most - films like 'Cool Hand Luke' and 'On the Waterfront.' So I start watching all of these, and I was getting educated, and I started being interested in this acting thing, if that's what they call it.

I've actually eaten in The Ivy in London. I love their shepherd's pie.

I'm a guy with simple tastes.

'Intermission' was my favourite film.

My mother passed. She passed when I was 10 or 11.

I went to an open audition for 'Between the Canals,' and that was a big thing. I suddenly thought, 'Ah, yeah!' Then I started getting brought away to do roles. That's when I got taken seriously.

I kick myself that I don't speak Irish. Ah, man, I'd love to. I am going to learn.

Everyone wants to be Batman; I want to be Robin. I'll make Robin cool. Make him legit.

I recently was in the same room as Leonardo DiCaprio, and one of my favorite movies is 'Basketball Diaries.' That movie hits home for me in so many ways, and in that moment, I was like, 'I have to thank this dude.' So I did.

Boxing is something I'm very into.

I want to not settle for one thing. Because I come from a place where I have nothing to lose.

All I would say is it doesn't matter where you come from. Like, Jim Sheridan comes from the inner city, and he's one of the top ones, a top lad.

In any inner city, there's not a lot of opportunities, and you really have to dig out and chase what you want to do, 'cos it's not handed to you, so.

I grew up in Summerhill in Dublin's inner city, and I came across an open audition, and they were looking for inner city kids who had not acted. I signed up.

People can get lost in the movie star world. They can't check in with reality, whereas I live at home with me girl, surrounded by real people.

Chris O'Dowd's a legend, isn't he? I like him.

Dior makes me look good, and I make Dior look good.

It's nice coming from Summerhill, because you don't come from having everything, and what you do get, you appreciate.

I'm good to women. I treat women with a lot of respect.

I thought I was going to be a footballer or a boxer or something like that - I was into sports.

I was a mess-up in school, a big mess-up. I was into history and English, because there were always stories, like 'Dracula' and World War II. I've never read a book, though. Never.

I'm always in touch with where I'm from.

Acting is not a thing where I'm from. Finishing school is a big thing. Not a lot of people finish school.

I want stories that tackle things.

I want stories where you either hate it or love it. I want to do movies like that, where it's not show and tell, where it's not, 'This is it, and now you reveal the ending, and that's that.'

I always believed that I could be one of the greatest actors of my generation.

It's very important for me to show younger kids that when opportunities are there, you have to jump on them.

I want a happy family.

I want to get a wolf and an eagle.

It is hard to keep your head sometimes. I just make sure I surround myself with good people.

I've stayed friends with the boys I've known since I was 10.

To be honest, I still get awestruck when I meet my heroes and the people I admire. I think that's only natural.

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