60 Fantabulous Quotes By - Dervla Kirwan | Status Free Download
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60 Fantabulous Quotes By - Dervla Kirwan | Instagram Status Free Download
Yoga is great for easing my back pain. It also helps me keep stress at bay, which is something I can suffer from.
— Dervla Kirwan
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.
— Dervla Kirwan
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
I was pregnant with my first child and so gloriously happy. I felt fecund and powerful.
— Dervla Kirwan
There's a difference between loneliness and solitude. You pursue solitude, I think. But loneliness is a completely different isolating thing.
— Dervla Kirwan
I am all for high art but I owe it to myself to be clever about it and do commercial things too.
— Dervla Kirwan
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.
— Dervla Kirwan
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.
— Dervla Kirwan
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.
— Dervla Kirwan
I really want to work with Mike Leigh.
— Dervla Kirwan
I've been very lucky with having a run of working with very special people and it just makes you work harder.
— Dervla Kirwan
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.'
— Dervla Kirwan
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.
— Dervla Kirwan
Because I don't live there anymore, I've fallen in love with London again.
— Dervla Kirwan
I watched 'Lagerfeld Confidential,' which was such an insight into the daily life of a maverick designer.
— Dervla Kirwan
I didn't grow up reading magazines; I was very much in an environment where that would have been deemed trivial, frivolous.
— Dervla Kirwan
Growing up, I wanted blond hair.
— Dervla Kirwan
I am very scatty, I don't follow things through, I forget things. I am not perfect.
— Dervla Kirwan
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) runs in my family, as do other mental health problems.
— Dervla Kirwan
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.
— Dervla Kirwan
Since I was 15 I've lived in fear that I'd never work again.
— Dervla Kirwan
David Attenborough's 'Life' series is phenomenal. He's a wonderful modern soothsayer.
— Dervla Kirwan
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?
— Dervla Kirwan
There's still, dare I say it, a cultural propaganda against the Irish, that we are, as women, 'feisty.' I hate that word.
— Dervla Kirwan
I'm not a football fan, and not remotely interested in it.
— Dervla Kirwan
It makes a lot of people cringe, the idea of being a team player.
— Dervla Kirwan
Sometimes, people are attracted to each other without knowing what or why or when it happens.
— Dervla Kirwan
I will always worry about where my career is going and am I any good.
— Dervla Kirwan
I am quite a mercurial person.
— Dervla Kirwan
I mean, the human race wouldn't continue if anyone told you how hard it is having kids, would it?
— Dervla Kirwan
When I was about nine, I was rushed to hospital to have my appendix removed. Like any child, I was more concerned about missing out on having fun with my friends than my health.
— Dervla Kirwan
My kids will never need a bodyguard because they'll have me.
— Dervla Kirwan
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.
— Dervla Kirwan
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.
— Dervla Kirwan
Who hasn't had an argument with their mother-in-law?
— Dervla Kirwan
I've made a lot of mistakes in my career but the biggest mistake I've made is to turn down work.
— Dervla Kirwan
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.
— Dervla Kirwan
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.
— Dervla Kirwan
The main thing I've done for my children is not to give them a stupid name, like actors do.
— Dervla Kirwan
I want to interact creatively with the directors I work with - it's a thrilling way to work.
— 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.
— Dervla Kirwan
I was always quite mature as a child and as I get older I'm regressing.
— Dervla Kirwan
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.
— Dervla Kirwan
I never discuss my troubles in a relationship. It's best to just keep those thoughts to yourself.
— Dervla Kirwan
As long as you're chasing something, that keeps you alive, right?
— Dervla Kirwan
My favourite designers are Stella McCartney, Balenciaga, Karl Lagerfeld, Chanel and Givenchy, but I wish I had loads of money to spend on them.
— Dervla Kirwan
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.
— Dervla Kirwan
I don't have a great relationship with food.
— Dervla Kirwan
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.'
— Dervla Kirwan
I've no desire to be away from my family for 16 hours a day.
— Dervla Kirwan
I'd much rather go for a long walk than spend an hour in the gym.
— Dervla Kirwan
I take the kids horse riding every weekend at Quob Stables - the people there are lovely.
— Dervla Kirwan
I'm a terrible cook but I wish I wasn't.
— Dervla Kirwan
I just love being in the middle of nowhere.
— Dervla Kirwan
True Dare Kiss' is a gothic drama about a highly dysfunctional Mancunian family who, after 20 years, reconvene for the funeral of their father. I wanted to play Phil because I really liked the character, and there is an element of mystery about her - which I can't reveal.
— Dervla Kirwan
Spending time away from family during filming, I think, for every working mum is always difficult. But it has to be done; there's no way round it you've just got to do it.
— Dervla Kirwan
Getting pregnant proved to be a hell of a shock but it's really exciting.
— Dervla Kirwan
I think I've got some actor's form of ADHD. I just can't do the same thing day in, day out.
— Dervla Kirwan
I can be a totally different person from one day to the next, so it is difficult for me to stay in one role over a prolonged period.
— Dervla Kirwan
As a chind in Dublin, I can remember having my plate piled high with four or five vegetables - and I'm convinced to this day that my mother's home cooking helped to ward off illness.
— Dervla Kirwan
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