Now it comes to this stage of my career when I get to play the wicked witch all the time. You know you start off with Cinderella and then you end up playing the stepmothers. Dervla Kirwan Read Quote
I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my career but the biggest mistake I’ve made is to turn down work. Dervla Kirwan Read Quote
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 a better actress had I stayed. Dervla Kirwan Read Quote
I’d never scan the starters and main courses on a menu in a restaurant as a child. I’d want a dessert for starter, for main course and for dessert. Dervla Kirwan Read Quote
I was a waitress at a really rundown Italian restaurant in Dublin, for about a week, at 16. I thought it was going to be romantic – overhearing affairs and watching first-time couples all loved up. But instead I was just running about constantly. Dervla Kirwan Read Quote
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 was exquisite, but I felt very guilty. Dervla Kirwan Read Quote
My mother was a woman of the ’50s who had a family in the ’70s while finding her political and feminist voice. She could make marvellous three-course meals after teaching all day but hated it. Because of that legacy, it took me a long time to realise the delights of the family table. Dervla Kirwan Read Quote
The main thing I’ve done for my children is not to give them a stupid name, like actors do. Dervla Kirwan Read Quote