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.

Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.

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

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

Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren't, it was all just a part of my everyday life.