I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.

I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.

You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut.

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.

A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.

I want to come across as a positive person.

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.