 Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger. |
| I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything. |
| I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely. |
| I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage. |
| My father was absent and he was a hero to me. |
| A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment. |
| The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up. |
| Once, I had so many scripts coming to me that I could hardly read them all. |
| I feel lucky, happy and philosophical about it all. |
| With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain. |
| It helped me when I decided that we're on this planet to learn to live together and get along. |
| I always knew it was going to be difficult when I got beyong 40, but I didn't realise it would start at 35. |
| Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat. |
| I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them. |
| Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now. |
| You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut. |
| I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin. |
| On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it. |
| Two people can make love but that isn't necessarily love. |
| I want to come across as a positive person. |
