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… — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up reading magazines; I was very much in an environment where that would have been deemed trivial, frivolous. — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
Ballykissangel' made me a household name, and I am enormously grateful for that, but I don't feel it would ever have developed me into… — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky with having a run of working with very special people and it just makes you work harder. — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
I was always quite mature as a child and as I get older I'm regressing. — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
Because I don't live there anymore, I've fallen in love with London again. — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
When I look at a magazine and I see Kate Winslet, I will buy it because Kate lends it a sense of achievement: she… — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
I feel better now at 38 then I did when I was 17. But then, when I was 17 I did have the attitude of a 40 year-old. — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
I moved to London when I was 18 to develop my acting career, but I still love going home to Ireland to recharge my batteries. — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
I ate ostrich. I'm not very proud of it. I was going through a very experimental period and probably during foot and mouth. It… — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
The very nature of acting is one minute you're up and the next you're down; one minute you're in favour and the next you're… — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
