My wife would say I'm more Hyde than Jekyll!

Perhaps not being very self-aware in the past masked depression. I think I was confused. I think I was immature. I think I probably was quite depressed.

That thing of briefly losing sight of a child happened to me when the kids were younger, and you can't see them in the supermarket or wherever. It's a terrible, terrible moment... the most unimaginable horror.

What I discovered all over Ireland is that people living simple lives by the sea or in the remote countryside seem a lot calmer than city folk with their iPads and their Android phones.

New Zealand is a place where you can get well.

I've got a history in my life of difficult times.

I feel old and vulnerable. I now realise that I knew nothing and know nothing, but back when my career was beginning, I thought I was a man when, in fact, I was a dewy-eyed boy who'd not seen an avocado or eaten a tomato.

I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

I never forget that I'm extremely fortunate.

Like the character I played in 'Jekyll', we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to lead decent lives, we're also attracted by the idea that something dark may lurk within us.

Several years ago, I began losing my hair, and like a lot of men, it was a major concern to me, in fact it was practically an obsession. But, also I'm an actor, so I'm in the public eye a lot and I really felt that my hair loss could affect my career prospects.

I'm not an actor who is often asked to be in period things.

I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds.

I'd be a very easy therapist's subject.

I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke.

Funnily enough, Northern Ireland is a great example of where politics can win over conflict. The decision to down arms and follow a political path would have been unthinkable once. It shows just what is possible.

I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from the Troubles.

When I was at drama school, I was totally broke, and a lot of my mates had jobs and were financially very good to me, so if, for example, I take them away on a trip to a football match in Europe, it means that I can pay them back a bit.

I spend my money on holidays and eating out, and it allows me to be generous.

I didn't much like Las Vegas. The noise of the place and the whole 24-hour, 'let's play the slot machines all night' culture of the place just left me cold.

My wife is a very strong woman.

I'm increasingly realising our consciousness and subconsciousness are extremely different, and our subconsciousness motivates us, but so far, I don't know what drove or motivates me.

Because I grew up with women, I have a certain amount of charm, and I'm all right to get on with, kind enough, funny enough, blah blah blah.

Theatres, along with the likes of the Ulster Orchestra, for example, are the cultural heartbeats of our towns and cities, and without them, we are much poorer for it.

If you are going to tell a story about a child going missing, it's going to have similarities with a real life child going missing.

I've never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I'm a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on, look at me. I'm really Desperate Dan.

I think a lot of us who grew up in Northern Ireland weren't politicised enough, frankly.

I lived a dual life, and when my dual life exploded, I began to feel much happier.

I don't think I'll be doing a lot more commercials.

I do commercials, but I also go to Sudan as an ambassador for UNICEF.

Actually, I played Pontius Pilate as nice. An actor spends his life thinking he is Christ, and then he gets to play the character that killed him.

I think often there is great rivalry between neurosurgeons and cardiac surgeons. I think I maybe have a bit of bias with neurosurgeons' opinion that nothing tops neurosurgery! But that makes for a quite interesting conflict between the two.

My early ambitions were the same as they are now - to play for Manchester United. I was, and still am, football mad.

I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor.

When I went to university, I was already working professionally with the Ulster Actors.

When people say, 'You're perceived as a sex symbol,' I love the idea of that because it's so absurd.

I spend an awful lot of time by myself and enjoy that.

Producers get very jittery about things.

My nightmare is that I don't want to be OK.

It's hard to make a film in Britain. It's hard to raise money. The best stuff that is shot on film in Britain is usually shot on film for television.

It's easier to act in your own accent.

You don't learn charm. It's not something that you can acquire. I have used it much in my life with great success, but it's not necessarily what makes me an actor. It became a very easy label to attach to me. It also feels a bit dismissive. People go, 'You're so lovely and charming', but it's a wee bit, 'That's all you are.'

Something about theatre perhaps scared me.

I'm not very good at standard English.

I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my soul.

Before I read the 'Bloody Sunday' script, I have to admit I hadn't thought about it that much. There was probably even part of me which assumed there was no smoke without fire. That the Catholics who were shot must have done something to provoke such a response from the army. I was extremely ignorant of the whole situation.

When you're brought up in a Unionist culture, you can't help but feel Unionist.

The whole process of making 'Bloody Sunday' was difficult but extraordinary.

I get an awful lot of people coming up and saying they went to school with me. There must have been 80,000 pupils at that school!

It's easy to get carried away with yourself.