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" We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring. "

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" I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her. "

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" I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch with reality, disappears and is picked up by a man. "

" Along the way I have been able to choose some themes which ask questions - not necessarily force a message on anyone, but at least invite the audience to question things: jury service, dignity in dying, Ireland - and not least because they force me to ask myself questions. Where do I stand? "

" I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around. "

" It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed. "

" I was having my teens in my 30s. "

" Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again. "

" I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre. "

" I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that. "

" It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything. "

" In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail. "

" I remember Michael saying, 'Rich and famous? It's much better to be just rich'. I didn't quite get it to begin with. But he's right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you've no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is. "

" It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people. "

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" I went through bits of the 60s and thought myself a bit of a hippy. "

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" I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish. "

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" Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before. "

" I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did. "

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" I don't like being out of the crowd. It's lonely within a group. "

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" I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women. "