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All Quotes by author - Deirdre O'Kane
" Acting is very much an all-or-nothing job. "
Very
Job
Much
" Filling a theatre like the Olympia or Vicar Street on your own name is a very rewarding moment. "
Like
Street
Name
" Growing up, I was your classic Catholic Irish kid. I went to mass every Sunday. Then in secondary school I went to boarding school, and there was mass seven days a week before breakfast - it may have put me off! "
Breakfast
Sunday
School
" I admire Pat Shortt as a businessman. Such acumen is unusual for an entertainer. He did all his own deals. I learnt a lot from Pat when I was on the road with him for a year. "
Own
Year
Road
" I am pretty much as you see me. I don't have deep, dark depths and go home in despair. "
You
Me
I Am
" I can make my living out of Ireland, but the reason I came to London was that I felt I'd gone as far as I could go in Ireland. "
Gone
London
Reason
" I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it. "
Necessity
Know
Real
" I could probably die happy with a cheeseboard and a glass of French red wine - that's my idea of a perfect dinner. "
Red
Perfect
Happy
" I don't like doing things by halves, and I realised you can't do stand-up comedy part-time. "
Doing
Comedy
Like
" I don't particularly want to work with my husband all the time, as in the living and the working thing. "
Thing
Husband
Time
" I get a good colour in summer but go really pale in winter, and it genuinely doesn't suit me, as people ask me if I'm ill. As well as making me look a bit better, I often have to be tanned in the middle of winter to do a show or programme, so I've road-tested every fake tan on the market. "
Better
Good
Look
" I have never, ever slept through my child crying unless I have had a sleeping tablet; and I only take a sleeping tablet when I know Steve, my husband, is on duty. We take turns: he does one night, I do the next. "
Night
Child
Husband
" I have no proper money to invest! "
Invest
Money
Proper
" I kind of flew into a panic that somebody would have already owned the rights, because Christina Noble's life is such a good story. It took us two full years to get Christina to agree and sign the rights. "
Two
Story
Rights
" I knew I couldn't do what Eddie Izzard does, so I just tried to write some stories that were based, or partly based, on my own experiences. "
Stories
Write
Own
" I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 13. "
Actress
Age
Knew
" I love motherhood. I certainly wasn't aware of any mothering instincts until I had babies. I wasn't a person who desperately wanted to have kids, but you don't get it until you do it, and, suddenly, this nurturing instinct exists. "
Instinct
Motherhood
Love
" I love peppermint tea, as it's much nicer than taking anything chemical for settling your stomach. "
Stomach
Love
Tea
" I'm a great lighter and lover of candles, particularly fragranced ones, as I'm kind of addicted to scent. "
Addicted
Lighter
Scent
" I'm a shopper but not a big money/label-y shopper. It makes me a nervous wreck. "
Big
Wreck
Nervous
" I'm doing my best to be mindful about how I'm living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else. "
Be Kind
Good
Doing
" I spent seven years in clubs in England, Australia, etc. Not all comedians cross over to sell out in a theatre. "
Theatre
Over
Australia
" I think boarding school does give you an independence. "
You
School
Independence
" It wasn't that I left acting; it's just that I put it aside while I set about becoming a comic. "
Comic
Becoming
Set
" I was 25 before I joined the world, in my opinion. I was a very late developer, and everything came late. "
Late
Opinion
Everything
" I was never very good at being an unemployed actor. I always thought that I should have been doing something pro-active. I was never good at doing juvenile leads. I suppose it's because I have this big sarcastic head on me. "
Head
Good
Me
" I would have benefited a lot from proper training. I could have done with a strong wake-up call about getting jobs. "
Done
Jobs
Lot
" Many's the audition I waltzed into unprepared and wondered why I didn't get it. I learned the hard way. "
Hard
Get
Way
" Most people haven't seen my dramatic work, but I did 10 years of theater before I ever became a comic. I'm just better known for comedy. "
Years
Better
Comedy
" My salary swings an unbelievable amount. When I had Holly, I took seven months off, so my salary was very low. It fluctuates wildly. No one pays you for the period you spend writing. I am certainly not rich. "
Salary
I Am
Writing
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