Top 42 Deirdre O'Kane Quotes
#1. Work hard, play hard, dream big, love loads, laugh as much as you can, and give back.
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#2. I'm doing my best to be mindful about how I'm living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else.
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#4. You wouldn't expect a cattle dealer to sit down at a grand piano and play it beautifully. That's my father.
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#5. I was never very good at being an unemployed actor. I always thought that I should have been doing something pro-active. I was never good at doing juvenile leads. I suppose it's because I have this big sarcastic head on me.
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#6. There's a lot I've missed about living in Ireland. You miss family, particularly when you've got kids.
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#7. I knew I couldn't do what Eddie Izzard does, so I just tried to write some stories that were based, or partly based, on my own experiences.
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#8. Most people haven't seen my dramatic work, but I did 10 years of theater before I ever became a comic. I'm just better known for comedy.
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#10. It wasn't that I left acting; it's just that I put it aside while I set about becoming a comic.
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#11. Filling a theatre like the Olympia or Vicar Street on your own name is a very rewarding moment.
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#12. Growing up, I was your classic Catholic Irish kid. I went to mass every Sunday. Then in secondary school I went to boarding school, and there was mass seven days a week before breakfast - it may have put me off!
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#13. When I came on the scene, there was The Nualas, who were doing character comedy, but there weren't any other women doing stand-up because Michelle Read had gone more into theatre.
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#14. I have never, ever slept through my child crying unless I have had a sleeping tablet; and I only take a sleeping tablet when I know Steve, my husband, is on duty. We take turns: he does one night, I do the next.
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#15. I am pretty much as you see me. I don't have deep, dark depths and go home in despair.
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#16. Ultimately, I just decided stand-up comedy is a huge commitment, and if you want to be the best, you have to give it one hundred per cent.
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#17. I spent seven years in clubs in England, Australia, etc. Not all comedians cross over to sell out in a theatre.
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#18. I don't like doing things by halves, and I realised you can't do stand-up comedy part-time.
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#19. You worry about whether you are match-fit, coming back to the stand-up stage.
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#20. When you're independent and not attached to a major media organisation, they just look at you as if to say, 'Who are you again?'
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#21. I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 13.
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#22. The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.
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#23. I can make my living out of Ireland, but the reason I came to London was that I felt I'd gone as far as I could go in Ireland.
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#24. I love motherhood. I certainly wasn't aware of any mothering instincts until I had babies. I wasn't a person who desperately wanted to have kids, but you don't get it until you do it, and, suddenly, this nurturing instinct exists.
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#25. I don't particularly want to work with my husband all the time, as in the living and the working thing.
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#26. Yes ... I miss that everyone in Ireland tries to knock some humour out of every situation. I don't think I appreciated that. It's unique to Ireland.
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#27. I think boarding school does give you an independence.
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#28. I'm a great lighter and lover of candles, particularly fragranced ones, as I'm kind of addicted to scent.
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#29. Waiting to be hired, as an actor, especially, is soul-destroying ... There is always something you can do ... Create something, a play reading ... Anything. But don't rely on other people to come to you. Put yourself out there.
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#30. I love peppermint tea, as it's much nicer than taking anything chemical for settling your stomach.
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#31. I was 25 before I joined the world, in my opinion. I was a very late developer, and everything came late.
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#32. Many's the audition I waltzed into unprepared and wondered why I didn't get it. I learned the hard way.
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#33. I would have benefited a lot from proper training. I could have done with a strong wake-up call about getting jobs.
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#34. I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.
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#35. I get a good colour in summer but go really pale in winter, and it genuinely doesn't suit me, as people ask me if I'm ill. As well as making me look a bit better, I often have to be tanned in the middle of winter to do a show or programme, so I've road-tested every fake tan on the market.
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#36. I admire Pat Shortt as a businessman. Such acumen is unusual for an entertainer. He did all his own deals. I learnt a lot from Pat when I was on the road with him for a year.
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#37. I'm a shopper but not a big money/label-y shopper. It makes me a nervous wreck.
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#38. My salary swings an unbelievable amount. When I had Holly, I took seven months off, so my salary was very low. It fluctuates wildly. No one pays you for the period you spend writing. I am certainly not rich.
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#39. I could probably die happy with a cheeseboard and a glass of French red wine - that's my idea of a perfect dinner.
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#40. One day I got an invite to help the Christina Noble Foundation, and by this stage, I'd already been talking about her for 10 years. I said 'yes' right away, and that was the first time I met her.
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#41. Yves Saint Laurent will never go out of business so long as I'm buying mountains of Touche Eclat.
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#42. I kind of flew into a panic that somebody would have already owned the rights, because Christina Noble's life is such a good story. It took us two full years to get Christina to agree and sign the rights.
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