You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

I've worked every day since I was 10. I don't know how to do anything else. There is nothing else I'd rather be doing.

I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.

If I die on a film set when I'm 80, I'll be happy with that.

I just got asked by another journalist 'Are you a feminist?' and I was just like... Is there a strange thing at the moment where you have to come out as a feminist? I've been asked if I'm a feminist so many times recently, and I'm just like 'Yes, yes, for God's sake, yes! Is there something that I give off that says I'm not?'

My taste in the films I've taken as an actor is similar to what I'd do a director or writer: all quite odd, challenging stuff, slightly off-the-wall.

What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.