Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.

The way I relax is I think, 'I haven't got anything coming up.' I like to know there are months ahead when I've got nothing.

My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while her brother and sister got an education. However, she came to England on a visit and never went back.

Shakespeare - it's not funny. No matter how they try to make Shakespeare funny, when it's meant to be funny it's not funny.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

I've never done so much bloody crying in my life. I was always moaning about how hard it was when we were shooting, how awful I felt.

I was feeling very irritable. It was that difficult time of the month when the credit card statement arrives.