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Quotes by Actress

"The least consideration of any film I've ever worked on is who is right for it."

"Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on."

"There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing."

"I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it."


"Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse."

"I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life."

"The only problem with the way they do my character is that they have her get redeemed too early."

"I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well."
Love,

"I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run."

"I can wholeheartedly apologize for not being at all sorry. And it really is the least I can do."


"My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while."
Mom,

"A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that."

"I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to eat it. I remember being very unhappy about that."

"I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases."

"Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides."

"People can only do what they are ready to do when they are ready to do it."

"It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around."

"Early on in my career, I'd go into the makeup trailer, and they'd spend an hour doing my makeup, and I would hate it. I'd go into the bathroom, wash it off and start over again, which took an enormous amount of time. So I just started doing it myself."

"I came to Christ when I was thirty-eight. That transformed my life."

"We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great."


"People really feel the need to share how the series has touched their lives, and that's been very moving. We're enormously grateful to the fans of the show. They've been extremely loyal to us season after season, and they make it all worthwhile."

"Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography."

"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."
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