“My father lost his leg in 1927 playing soccer. A kick broke his leg; g...” — Pete Hamill Quote

My father lost his leg in 1927 playing soccer. A kick broke his leg; gangrene set in. They sawed it off. So he didn't get what a lot of Irish immigrants got, which was a job on the Waterfront - he didn't get that.

When I was in the navy, I wanted to go to Paris and the Academie Julian. I never did. Mexico City took me instead.

I think if you had to choose between running a tabloid and being president of the United States, of course you'd run the tabloid, especially in New York.

The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys' name.

I usually wake up at 7, 7:15, without an alarm. I hate the sound of an alarm.

I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible.

I was 29 when we sort of broke through with Ghost.

When I was 8 years old, I was struck by a car and broke a few ribs.

There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction musically, and as a guitar player, Mark wanted to move in another direction. That was essentially the reason we broke up.

The guy who kind of broke the story in 'Spotlight' was a priest, the guy who had sort of done all the research. One of the things he said when one of the 'Spotlight' reporters asked him how he could still remain a Catholic, he said that, 'My faith is in the eternal, and the church is an organization.'