80 Quotes by Dervla Kirwan

I can be a totally different person from one day to the next, so it is difficult for me to stay in one role over a prolonged period.

I don't want to be known as 'oh, Dervla, when she's on stage she's very good but she's terribly dreary', or 'another heavy night with Kirwan.'

I really want to get into feature films.

I'm obviously slightly ill, because there is a burning desire to be perfect in me. It's probably the Catholic, or the ex-Catholic in me.

I used to be nervous about not working and so would work for the sake of it.

I've no desire to be away from my family for 16 hours a day.

Since I was 15 I've lived in fear that I'd never work again.

There's a difference between loneliness and solitude. You pursue solitude, I think. But loneliness is a completely different isolating thing.

Twenty or 30 years ago, certainly when my mother was my age, I'm sure she felt things were pretty over for her. You had your kids when you were 20. You brought them up. They left home. Then what do you do? While I feel genuinely optimistic. Well, I have no other choice.