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

I'd like to think there'll be too much of real life going on for me to want to do much acting.

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.

I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.

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

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

It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.