Quotes from Aisling Bea

Unfortunately, 'How You Remind Me' is the song most perfectly suited to my voice.

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

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.

I've always hated exercise, but because I've had problems with my back, I now do Pilates, and I walk a lot.

While we talk about successes, I think it's also important to talk about all the failures. Like, for every Netflix special, there's things that don't work.

If I told my 16-year-old self that, at 34, I'd have no kids and not be in a movie in America, I wouldn't think I was still successful.

Always use sun protection - my favourite brand is Image Skincare.

Any child who has lost a parent probably knows every single photograph in existence of that parent.

I love BareMinerals pink blushers, Smashbox eyeshadows and eyeliners, and Trish McEvoy mascara.

I buy so much stuff from charity shops.

Everyone has material about cats, and everyone has material about family and what they think about their government or childhood.

Please note when you watch a play, you can't pause it and go to the loo or shout into the kitchen for a tea. Learned that the hard way.

I wear a lot of blacks and greys, then put in splashes of colours, but I like wearing strong shades like reds and neons, too.

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

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.

I've never once in my life had a tan - I'm basically a ghost!

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.

I remember, when I got my first period, I was almost afraid to tell me mother, who's quite an open, loving person. But I felt really weird; the chat just wasn't there.

Nothing chills out the soul like the comfort of tea and a potato.

In this modern world, where we have filters to make us look as nice as possible, it's good to take off the filter and go, 'I could look stupid here.' You'll learn something and be better for it.

If y,ou do buy shoes from wherever you like wear the hell out of them, and go to your cobbler when the heels go and get them reheeled for a few quid.

Clare Henderson creates the most beautiful delicate prints and paintings.

Success is never going to come in the way your teenage self sees it.

Things are only daunting if they are very far away from your main skillset.