Top 72 Quotes & Sayings by Aisling Bea - Page 2

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.

Up to the age of five, I wanted to be a builder. My neighbour, a builder called Paddy White, would come in for a cup of tea with my mother. I'd assemble all the pillows together at interesting angles, thinking he would spot my talent at a raw young age and take me on as an apprentice.

I had a bad break up at university - you know, when your heart breaks for the very first time, and you think, 'I must leave this island,' as if it had never happened to anyone before. I said 'OK, I'll go to England,' and it was the best decision I ever made.

My on-set, keep-warm jacket is a Patagonia, and they make sure the people who make their clothes are paid fairly, along with a load of other great stuff and initiatives. They're a business, but they put their money where their mouth is in terms of caring and responsibility.

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

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

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

I buy so much stuff from charity shops.

I love my cobbler, and he fixes my soles and soul for me.

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.

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

Songs with simple lyrics really take off in Irish nightclubs.