Fighting Quote by Dervla Kirwan

I didn't grow up reading magazines; I was very much in an environment where that would have been deemed trivial, frivolous.

— Dervla Kirwan

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

I've been very lucky with having a run of working with very special people and it just makes you work harder.

— Dervla Kirwan

I was always quite mature as a child and as I get older I'm regressing.

— Dervla Kirwan

Because I don't live there anymore, I've fallen in love with London again.

— Dervla Kirwan

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

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

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

As long as you're chasing something, that keeps you alive, right?

— Dervla Kirwan

I am quite a mercurial person.

— Dervla Kirwan

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

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