Aisling Bea

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

“When you see people getting involved in Comic Relief, especially in tough times or times of recession, that's very positive.”

“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...”

“For ethical fashion, I really like Reformation. It's so fashionable - no hemp trousers.”

“No-one posts photos of themselves on Instagram when you're eating spaghetti hoops out of a tin going 'Why?'”

“Northern Irish people tend to have this sharp, dark sense of humour.”

“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 interesti...”

“I like the more community element of comedy. And I hate people pitting other people against each other. Audiences are always judging you, but when you're being judged for a competition, it j...”

“There aren't as many women in my industry in comedy as there should and could and hopefully will be, but it is interesting growing up watching a woman in a male-dominated industry and kind o...”

“When you go to a restaurant, sometimes you want to go to Heston Blumenthal's where you hear the sound of the sea while you're eating one tiny thing for a hundred quid. And then sometimes you...”

“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.”

“Repealing the Eighth Amendment is about women who don't want to be pregnant. It's not about a certain type of woman, a certain age of woman - we all known sisters and mothers who have chosen...”