The terrible thing about acting is the stops and starts.

Going back to Ireland involves at least six to seven emotional breakdowns for me per day.

Of wanting to pay my own way. I never asked my parents for money. I preferred to steal from my parents than ask them for money.

The terrible thing about acting is the stops and starts.

It was great to work in Ireland because it's such a beautiful country, but it's not particularly easy to film in because the weather changes all the time.

The idea of being given things that you don't necessarily deserve was always a difficult one for me to negotiate, and so I really always felt that I had to prove myself. Being the daughter of a famous man I guess is more easy than being the daughter of a famous woman, but at the same time there was a sense of really, with me, of wanting to earn my own way.

Age is not enviable in America. It's not applauded all that strongly. You have to take it all with a grain of salt.