25 Quotes by Genevieve O'Reilly

I used to have an Australian accent for school and an Irish accent for home.

I think moving from Ireland to Australia, you couldn't get a more different accent on the palate. The Irish accent is very muscular and involves a lot of tongue and cheek-muscle work, whereas the Australian accent is really flat; the palate is quite broad. They're at almost opposite ends of the scale, so I feel it was good training.

Certainly in my youth there was lots of singing, lots of storytelling, and whenever we went to a party, you had to do a party piece, like sing songs, recite poems, or tell stories. That sort of narrative musical culture was my upbringing.

I think most Irish people are creative. Whether it's music, or dance, or... certainly storytelling is in the blood.

I love Adelaide. It's a great place.

I've had quite a wide spread of a career. But it's not like I've had to negotiate what Sienna Miller has had to negotiate, or even Felicity Jones, for example.

I'm a bit of a mongrel, really!

There's such a fascination with celebrity. I think that's a very different thing to being an actor.

My goal has always been, from the time I was at drama school, about longevity.