It's part of my job. You can't play Veronica Guerin sounding like this. It just wouldn't wash. But what I find fascinating about doing an accent - unless it's a farce - is that it's not slapped on.

It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.

Onscreen, babies and animals are my inspiration. They're so alive and there and not messed up in the head the way I am.

When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.

Everyone gets obsessed with anti-aging but I'd rather look as good as I can at the age I am.

Please, I need you to save my ass.

The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what's happening onstage.