I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish.

I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.

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

I didn't come into the business to get awards or titles.

I was having my teens in my 30s.

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.

Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.