Dervla Kirwan Quotes

Dervla Kirwan

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 24, 1971

The actor's job is to put themselves in the shoes of the character they are trying to portray as truthfully as possible.

Dervla Kirwan

It's a collective experience when you're making TV. You think of all the people who work hard to make this extraordinary and you just hope that it works well.

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I was always quite mature as a child and as I get older I'm regressing.

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I never read the good press and never read the bad press. If you believe the good press you're finished. If you believe the bad press, you won't be able to continue.

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My parents have a brilliant ear for languages and mimicry and accents, which I think I've inherited - that I can listen to things and pick them up.

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I never discuss my troubles in a relationship. It's best to just keep those thoughts to yourself.

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Who hasn't had an argument with their mother-in-law?

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Because I don't live there anymore, I've fallen in love with London again.

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As long as you're chasing something, that keeps you alive, right?

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I watched 'Lagerfeld Confidential,' which was such an insight into the daily life of a maverick designer.

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Now it comes to this stage of my career when I get to play the wicked witch all the time. You know you start off with Cinderella and then you end up playing the stepmothers.

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My favourite designers are Stella McCartney, Balenciaga, Karl Lagerfeld, Chanel and Givenchy, but I wish I had loads of money to spend on them.

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I didn't grow up reading magazines; I was very much in an environment where that would have been deemed trivial, frivolous.

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Growing up, I wanted blond hair.

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When I look at a magazine and I see Kate Winslet, I will buy it because Kate lends it a sense of achievement: she is brilliant, sexy, a mother.

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I don't have a great relationship with food.

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Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) runs in my family, as do other mental health problems.

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I don't want to be known as 'oh, Dervla, when she's on stage she's very good but she's terribly dreary', or 'another heavy night with Kirwan.'

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I'm obviously slightly ill, because there is a burning desire to be perfect in me. It's probably the Catholic, or the ex-Catholic in me.

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I've no desire to be away from my family for 16 hours a day.

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