Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Orla Brady

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Irish actress Orla Brady.
Last updated on November 7, 2024.
Orla Brady

Orla Brady is an Irish theatre, television, and film actress born in Dublin. She has been nominated for several awards from the Irish Film & Television Academy for her work in televised programs, as well as starring in the RTÉ/BBC co-production A Love Divided where she portrayed Sheila Cloney, for which she won the 1999 Golden Nymph Best Actress Award. She began her career with the Balloonatics Theatre Company as a touring performer, later gaining her first minor role in television as a bank clerk in the series Minder in 1993. Her first role in film was as Vanessa in Words Upon the Window Pane in 1994. Brady starred in recurring roles in a number of US and UK series, and in a Doctor Who special. In 2020, she was listed as number 43 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.

I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.
I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.
Clothes are interesting and they're there to be played with. I like the idea of costume rather than fashion. — © Orla Brady
Clothes are interesting and they're there to be played with. I like the idea of costume rather than fashion.
Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.
Why not just have fun with clothes? We should be more light-hearted about how we dress, how we look. If you experiment, you can go wrong, clearly; but you can have a wonderful time doing it!
Everyone knew I was anti-marriage. I'd spent my life saying it was something I neither wanted nor needed.
If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.
Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.
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