Aisling Bea

Put everything into it if you're asking people to part with money for it. That's the way I feel about it. ”

I'll be honest: I've never wanted to do anything other than perform. ”

I am too fat and tall to be a jockey. This is not self-deprecation - I realise that I am neither too fat nor too tall - but I am too fat and too tall to be a jockey. ”

It's a difficult thing to be in fashion or popular - it's all so fickle. ”

For ethical fashion, I really like Reformation. It's so fashionable - no hemp trousers. ”

I love L.A. Some people arrive with big expectations and are inevitably disappointed, but I can audition in the day, which can be gruelling and lonely, but then gig and be creative in the evenings. ”

When I'm in L.A., I'm part of the Irish community out there, and I just love it. ”

Those two years at drama school were nutty and weird. I didn't love it at all - I loved my class; I have so many great friends from that time - but I learned less. I just learned more of what I didn't like. ”

My father's death has given me a lot. It has given me a lifelong love of women, of their grittiness and hardness - traits that we are not supposed to value as feminine. It has also given me a love of men, of their vulnerability and tenderness - traits that we do not foster as masculine or allow ourselves to associate with masculinity. ”

Your first love is your first love. It cannot be analysed, explained, nor forgotten. ”