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.

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.

I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.

I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.

I can talk myself so much into my part.

I was having my teens in my 30s.

I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch with reality, disappears and is picked up by a man.