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" I could probably die happy with a cheeseboard and a glass of French red wine - that's my idea of a perfect dinner. "

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" I love peppermint tea, as it's much nicer than taking anything chemical for settling your stomach. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You worry about whether you are match-fit, coming back to the stand-up stage. "

" With a new baby, you have a bad day now and again because you're particularly tired, but most of the time, you're fine. You spend a lot of your time trying to figure out how you can get more sleep, but really, you're better off just giving up and admitting that you're not going to, so forget about it. "

" Work hard, play hard, dream big, love loads, laugh as much as you can, and give back. "

" When you're independent and not attached to a major media organisation, they just look at you as if to say, 'Who are you again?' "

" Many's the audition I waltzed into unprepared and wondered why I didn't get it. I learned the hard way. "

" Yes... I miss that everyone in Ireland tries to knock some humour out of every situation. I don't think I appreciated that. It's unique to Ireland. "

" I don't like doing things by halves, and I realised you can't do stand-up comedy part-time. "

" Acting is very much an all-or-nothing job. "

" Yves Saint Laurent will never go out of business so long as I'm buying mountains of Touche Eclat. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I am pretty much as you see me. I don't have deep, dark depths and go home in despair. "

" Filling a theatre like the Olympia or Vicar Street on your own name is a very rewarding moment. "

" I spent seven years in clubs in England, Australia, etc. Not all comedians cross over to sell out in a theatre. "

" 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. "

" When I came on the scene, there was The Nualas, who were doing character comedy, but there weren't any other women doing stand-up because Michelle Read had gone more into theatre. "

" You wouldn't expect a cattle dealer to sit down at a grand piano and play it beautifully. That's my father. "

" One day I got an invite to help the Christina Noble Foundation, and by this stage, I'd already been talking about her for 10 years. I said 'yes' right away, and that was the first time I met her. "

" Ultimately, I just decided stand-up comedy is a huge commitment, and if you want to be the best, you have to give it one hundred per cent. "

" 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. "

" I don't particularly want to work with my husband all the time, as in the living and the working thing. "

" 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. "

" I was 25 before I joined the world, in my opinion. I was a very late developer, and everything came late. "

" I would have benefited a lot from proper training. I could have done with a strong wake-up call about getting jobs. "

" Waiting to be hired, as an actor, especially, is soul-destroying... There is always something you can do... Create something, a play reading... Anything. But don't rely on other people to come to you. Put yourself out there. "

" 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. "