A weird thing about being an actress is that shooting movies doesn't feel like watching movies. It feels like being in a warehouse..

Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes..

When history calls, history calls..

I've never really liked L.A., because of its sprawl..

The only thing I was any good at was music..

In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from..

There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’..

I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname..