Some people think self-employment is risky, but the real risk lies in deriving your security from an external source.
Most women get pregnant and even though it's a challenge physically and uncomfortable, they generally wanted to be pregnant.
Five years is a long time to play one part.
Witness protection just makes for exciting stories and it's a really rich sort of place to grab stories from. . . people starting over completely, saying goodbye to their lives before. . . it never ends in terms of story opportunities.
Really, I'm just a simple girl from Jersey.
Acting is always sort of the same - like you want to be - you know you're pretending and you want to make it as real as you can. That's the similarity. The mediums other than that are completely different. I mean you know with camera work you're doing really small detailed work and you know if you do anything too big you've sort of failed. And with stage, especially with the play I'm doing right now, I'm doing a farce, and it's so over the top that you can't actually be too big. So it's just completely different.
I'm from durable stock. I'm made to work. I'm Irish.
The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
The first day of the rest of my life, and I’m not sure I want to be here. I know I should be thanking somebody for this, but I really don’t feel like it. Instead, I wish they hadn’t bothered.
I felt like I was literally losing myself as being the joyful, spiritual, passionate, exciting woman that I naturally had been.
As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.