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" After 'Bridesmaids,' women know who I am. "
Women
Am
Bridesmaids
" A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play. "
Fun
Play
Guy
" All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money. "
I Am
Less
Me
" Beyonce is the most amazing woman in the world. "
World
Amazing
Beyonce
" Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it. "
Taking
Writing
Comedy
" Hey, I think comic actors are the best actors. "
Best
Comic
Think
" I come from a musical kind of family. "
Family
Kind
Musical
" I definitely want to keep working in Ireland, and without being too worthy about it, if it's possible to bring work into the country, that's no harm. "
Work
Working
Country
" I don't know if I'd do an action movie because I don't know if I could keep a straight face; honestly, I just think it's so silly. Like, I love watching them but I can't imagine me doing one. "
Know
Love
Me
" I feel like I need to start wearing a T-shirt saying 'This is not a photo opportunity'. People are so lovely but you do find that when you're out you spend 40% of your time posing for photographs. "
Saying
Opportunity
Start
" I grew up among strong women so I know what it's like to be loved and humiliated in a heartbeat. "
Loved
Women
Strong Women
" I grew up in a house of forthright women. "
House
Up
Forthright
" I'm probably working on three different scripts at any time, so there's never a time where I've got nothing to do. "
Working
Never
Nothing
" I often talk to myself while walking down the street. I did it as a kid. "
Street
Walking
Talk
" I play very sweet characters, so people look at me like I'm the kid from 'The Wonder Years,' rather than Brad Pitt. "
Wonder
Sweet
Play
" I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality; people have to sympathise with you to find you funny. "
You
Think
Quality
" I've always been conscious of the fact that there aren't enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish people who live there. "
Enough
Television
Always
" I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration. "
People
Nothing
Inspiration
" L.A. is fun, but it feels like one of those towns in the north of Scotland where there's an oil rig just off the coast and whether or not you work for the oil rig, everyone is connected to it. "
Work
Connected
Everyone
" Louis C. K. makes me laugh, I must say. "
Must
Laugh
Louis
" Put it this way: singing is not my day job. "
Singing
Job
Way
" Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence. "
Great
Technology
Media
" The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers. "
Line
Opportunities
Enough
" What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural. "
Natural
More
Great
" When I was about 13 I realised girls weren't going to kiss me because I was a gigantic, weird looking creature from the depths. I was like 6 ft. aged 11. "
Me
Looking
Like
" When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not. "
Discipline
Stupid
Dreams
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