Ciaran Hinds Quotes

It was difficult when I was very young because I was so separated from my family. When I was at school or acting in a play, I felt very much part of something, and then it would always change, and I would be by myself.

The worst thing for a kid is to move around and switch schools, but as an actor, you go from job to job, meeting strangers and becoming very close right away. I've become adept at that.

There was no time when I lived anywhere longer than two years. I was always a social outcast. Maybe I didn't care what people thought because I was like, 'Well, I probably won't stick around here for too long.'

I was always making new friends, then losing them.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

I don't have any social life or anything.

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

Every other year, I was the new boy. I found that the only way to survive was to embrace it, make a little fortress on the outside and to pretend to blend in but not to invest too much because you'll be somewhere else next year.

When you're on the road and moving city to city, when someone isn't there at the end of the night, you feel empty.

And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

I feel like a visitor just about everywhere.

I'd traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.

I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends.

One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.

In a sense it's a lot crazier when you're on the road and it's a lot less stable, but it's actually really healthy for me because it keeps me from isolating, which I tend to do a lot.

When I wasn't the flavor of the week or month or day, those were hard times.

There were about two years when I literally paid no rent anywhere in the world. Everyone's a contact, but there's no real human interaction. That's a very wearying thing.

I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

I don't even know how it is to have a home. I feel like an orphan or something.

You can be really hot one minute, the next minute be unemployed.

We spend 364 days a year surrounded by people who kind of are our family, but we never really get to meet them or break through with them.

I had trouble making friends because we moved around so much.

It's kind of hard when you're on the road all the time, from one show to the next, from one hotel room to the next hotel room, it's kind of hard to think about everything.

Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.

For many years, I didn't have a home.