The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

I think Irish women are strong as horses, incredibly loyal and for the most part, funny, witty, bright and optimistic in the face of devastating reality.

People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.

There's still a great hesitancy in the Irish make up about expressing feelings... it'd be nice to say I miss you, I love you, come home.

True, lasting peace comes not through stamping out the ignorance of others, but through cultivating acceptance with ourselves.

But it was smell that carried memory.

Go right to the solution so that there won't be a problem.-Colette

What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

It turns out your conscious mind - the part you think of as you - is really the smallest part of what’s happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.

The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.

I don't feel particularly courageous.

The point isn’t to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.

I have a family to feed.

I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can.