Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist's soul, my actor's soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man.

It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race.

I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now.

Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life.

But, you know, sex is controversial, it just is and it always will be.

In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?

Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning.

I gravitate toward women.

I have friends who have daughters and there's times I think I'm glad I have boys instead of girls.

I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering.

In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly.

The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.

And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me.

I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.

At the Sex Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, they were a phenomenal help, too. We went out there for a few days, and they gave us access to materials. And the biographies, there are four or five, ranging from very poor to excellent.

Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.

I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the '70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don't want to sing in front of anybody.

I was an OK boxer, I wasn't great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.

I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too.

I always wanted to be a cowboy, and Jedi Knights are basically cowboys in space, right?

To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.

Sitting down to eat in our house is about sharing, you know, talking about the day you've had, be it in school or work or whatever, so that's very important to us.

It's interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing.

The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it's a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another.