Madonna is the most famous woman on the planet and has been for a number of decades.

Baddies always do get the best lines, that's the honest truth.

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realized I'd become an actor.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

I'm not really very ambitious.

I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force.

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.

I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.

When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.

It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.

When life stops you making progress, don't see it as a step backwards.Think of it as doing the Moonwalk.

We can create the world where we are with the ones we want to love so easily.

The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail you, to sabotage your leadership, or to subvert relationships within the organization.

The darkness, of which the historians complain, is essentially the darkness of their own ignorance.

If you really pay attention to me, I'm not the most serious person.

Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible.

I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.

My mother is more of an adviser. I followed everything she did when I was younger, because I looked up to her so much.

I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.

To know and not to do is not to know.