Words matter. These are the best Genevieve O’Reilly Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m not sure I’m a good cook. But I like cooking, and it’s a real family thing – an expression of love being together.
I have a few homes. I have my family home in Adelaide where my parents and my brothers and sisters are, and I have a few friends and my place where I used to live in Sydney, and then my husband and our family in London, so… I’m from everywhere and nowhere.
All of my dad’s family, his brothers and sisters, my nana and grandad and all of the cousins emigrated to Australia within two years of each other. Irish families are close at the best of times, but when you move to the other side of the world, we were like a big posse over there.
I’ve had quite a wide spread of a career. But it’s not like I’ve had to negotiate what Sienna Miller has had to negotiate, or even Felicity Jones, for example.
I’m a bit of a mongrel, really!
Whenever I do a play, there are ‘Star Wars’ fans at the stage door, and they’re always lovely – so excited and so effusive about the storylines and the characters. When you’re doing something really serious, and the ‘Star Wars’ fans are waiting outside, it’s a nice juxtaposition.
We used to speak Irish – Gaelic Irish – around the dinner table, but over the years, we lost that.
What’s that comment about every actor being a waiter who is out of a job? I did a lot of waitressing, and I loved it because I love getting to know people from different places.
Isn’t everybody a ‘Star Wars’ fan?
I think there’s a responsibility to any character that you play that was a living persona.
Me and my husband make decisions together, and we think of the children always, as a lot of jobs take you away as an actor, and it’s a bit of a gypsy lifestyle.
I used to have an Australian accent for school and an Irish accent for home.
My goal has always been, from the time I was at drama school, about longevity.
There’s such a fascination with celebrity. I think that’s a very different thing to being an actor.
It’s great to have a job and then go to another one, and have another one to go to after that. It doesn’t always happen; you might be waiting a few months. But I’ve had some interesting roles, and worked with some great people. And it has been a really interesting mix between theatre television and film.
I think there are lots of reasons to take projects. Being scared about one is always good.
I love Adelaide. It’s a great place.
I think most Irish people are creative. Whether it’s music, or dance, or… certainly storytelling is in the blood.
