“The very nature of acting is one minute you're up and the next you're ...” — Dervla Kirwan Quote

The very nature of acting is one minute you're up and the next you're down; one minute you're in favour and the next you're forgotten. You go away and you come back again.

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

The thing that strikes a chord with me... as a mother... is to think of my 17-year-old son fighting would be just terrifying.

I mean, the human race wouldn't continue if anyone told you how hard it is having kids, would it?

I think if you contribute to a job, and it's repeated and repeated, and sold over the world, and the producers are making millions, you should benefit from it.

I'm comedy's forgotten nearly man.

War may make us great, but let it never be forgotten that peace only can make us both great and free.

Where a new guy may only know one or two ways to do something, I know all of the moves, and I've forgotten more stuff than the newer guys might even know.

I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.

And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.