Words matter. These are the best Laura Donnelly Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Any rehearsal process – I find, anyway – does have quite an effect on me, and I very much live in that world for the whole period of time that I’m involved with the production. But normally, afterwards with a little bit of space, I can come right back out of it again.
I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed ‘Casualty’ and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
I always look to play flawed characters. I’m not very interested in playing somebody that’s just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
Fly-fishing is really addictive.
I’ve had people break into profiles on my Internet; they got into my accounts. This was at the beginning of my career. There is a fair bit of alarm when something like that happens. It definitely bothered me a lot at the time. But you move on from these things.
Throughout my childhood, I did a form of Irish dancing that was kind of the precursor to ‘Riverdance.’ It was a mixture of ballet and Irish dancing that my teacher, Patricia Mulholland, had invented, essentially. It was Irish ballet, and she would create performances based around the myths and legends of Ireland.
It’s not my job to get really personal in how I express myself. I’ve met fans, and they’ve been lovely. But letting my personal life out there, I don’t think is a good idea for me. I think the more you do that, the more you can be accused of encouraging that kind of attention.
To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
It’s a funny thing when you know someone and you meet their siblings – you get so much a sense of who they are because when you can recognize similar traits in the family, you understand exactly why they are the way they are.
My first mentor and inspiration was my Irish Dancing teacher Patricia Mulholland. She created her own form of dance known as Irish ballet and created stage productions of old Irish myths and legends. They were my first experiences on stage. She told my mum I was destined for the stage, and I took that as my cue.
Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it’s quite like acting.
