Dervla Kirwan Quotes

Dervla Kirwan

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 24, 1971

I was pregnant with my first child and so gloriously happy. I felt fecund and powerful.

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Yoga is great for easing my back pain. It also helps me keep stress at bay, which is something I can suffer from.

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I ate ostrich. I'm not very proud of it. I was going through a very experimental period and probably during foot and mouth. It was exquisite, but I felt very guilty.

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Getting pregnant proved to be a hell of a shock but it's really exciting.

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I am very scatty, I don't follow things through, I forget things. I am not perfect.

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I've been very lucky with having a run of working with very special people and it just makes you work harder.

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It does annoy me when I walk into a room and there are six men over the age of 40 with, let's just say, a major gut problem, and they're saying 'hang on there Dervla, don't eat your chocolate cake at dessert.'

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I am concerned that there's a cavalier attitude to the Irish Peace Process. What poor memories some have; I remember only too well the bag searches, the bomb scares and deaths. As they say, history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.

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At first I didn't want to get involved with another actor. But Rupert is a lovely man who is clearly a great dad.

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Yeah, I talk to everyone. I think that's the secret, you know. Keep it friendly, keep it warm. People just want to connect, don't they, at the end of the day?

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I've made a lot of mistakes in my career but the biggest mistake I've made is to turn down work.

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I am all for high art but I owe it to myself to be clever about it and do commercial things too.

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Ballykissangel' made me a household name, and I am enormously grateful for that, but I don't feel it would ever have developed me into a better actress had I stayed.

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A lot of actresses say they are 24 when they are 34 but I find that ridiculous. I wish we didn't succumb to the youth-is-all ideology in this industry, because there is a huge audience out there who want to relate to characters of their own age played by actors of their own age.

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I'd never scan the starters and main courses on a menu in a restaurant as a child. I'd want a dessert for starter, for main course and for dessert.

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I was a waitress at a really rundown Italian restaurant in Dublin, for about a week, at 16. I thought it was going to be romantic - overhearing affairs and watching first-time couples all loved up. But instead I was just running about constantly.

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My mother was a woman of the '50s who had a family in the '70s while finding her political and feminist voice. She could make marvellous three-course meals after teaching all day but hated it. Because of that legacy, it took me a long time to realise the delights of the family table.

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The main thing I've done for my children is not to give them a stupid name, like actors do.

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I really want to work with Mike Leigh.

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I want to interact creatively with the directors I work with - it's a thrilling way to work.

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