Nothing strengthens a woman's determination to be in love quite so much as being told that she cannot.

I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.

I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

we Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job.

It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.

In later years, during what might be called my gray-outs — when I was conscious but not myself — I craved foods that were almost always fattening.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.