I love going away with friends - it gets a bit raucous and fun.

It's not difficult to be attracted to Rupert Penry-Jones.

I think there are lots of reasons to take projects. Being scared about one is always good.

All of my dad's family, his brothers and sisters, my nana and grandad and all of the cousins emigrated to Australia within two years of each other. Irish families are close at the best of times, but when you move to the other side of the world, we were like a big posse over there.

Me and my husband make decisions together, and we think of the children always, as a lot of jobs take you away as an actor, and it's a bit of a gypsy lifestyle.

What's that comment about every actor being a waiter who is out of a job? I did a lot of waitressing, and I loved it because I love getting to know people from different places.

I'm not sure I'm a good cook. But I like cooking, and it's a real family thing - an expression of love being together.

We used to speak Irish - Gaelic Irish - around the dinner table, but over the years, we lost that.

I think there's a responsibility to any character that you play that was a living persona.

I'm a working actor, and that's what I always wanted.