Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.

I love cleaning. I love mopping the floor. If you need your floor mopped, I'm there.

I don't think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead.

I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

I think acting is something that is within you. It's a very natural thing for me. It comes from myself, really.

I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.

I think I do believe in the afterlife; I have heard stories from people who I can completely trust that have seen ghosts.

My name means freedom in Irish.

Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.

They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed.

To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one.

I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

Everything gets old if you do it often enough.

Regret is a toxin that I try not to allow in my body.

She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.