I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to eat it. I remember being very unhappy about that.

I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.

I'd always wanted to act, but it was a question of whether acting wanted me and whether the movies wanted me.

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.

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.

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

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