You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.

You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they've become, whether they're the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters.

You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?

My knees buckled. It's the last thing I expected

My feet are like something from another age - prehistoric and troll-like. I keep expecting them to talk, they have that much character.

I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.

I'll try and get through as much as my voice and nerves and knees will let me.

I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.

I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.

I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley.

Check out that one at the end. He's taken the form of a footstool. Weird...but somehow I like his style.""That is a footstool.

Fate of the worms or insects on earth is 100% better than those who are born as Royals.

There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress.

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

I love movin'. I was observant growing up, watching Michael Jackson and John Travolta. I'd close my eyes, see the moves.

If the Cowardly Lion were on RuPaul’s Drag Race, so much of my childhood would be less nightmarish.

Some men are afraid of women who challenge them and demand respect and answers. That's who I am and will always be.

I've been to three Olympics and I don't feel I've ever quite achieved my best at any of them.

I am astonished by the amount and quality of love that is available if we will ask, and participate and show up for life.

You can game the social media in the short run, but not for long.