Deirdre O'Kane
Deirdre O'Kane
I'm a shopper but not a big money/label-y shopper. It makes me a nervous wreck.
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I get a good colour in summer but go really pale in winter, and it genuinely doesn't suit me, as people ask me if I'm ill. As well as making me look a bit better, I often have to be tanned in the middle of winter to do a show or programme, so I've road-tested every fake tan on the market.
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I'm doing my best to be mindful about how I'm living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else.
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I love motherhood. I certainly wasn't aware of any mothering instincts until I had babies. I wasn't a person who desperately wanted to have kids, but you don't get it until you do it, and, suddenly, this nurturing instinct exists.
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I am pretty much as you see me. I don't have deep, dark depths and go home in despair.
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I can make my living out of Ireland, but the reason I came to London was that I felt I'd gone as far as I could go in Ireland.
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I don't particularly want to work with my husband all the time, as in the living and the working thing.
I don't like doing things by halves, and I realised you can't do stand-up comedy part-time.
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I could probably die happy with a cheeseboard and a glass of French red wine - that's my idea of a perfect dinner.
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The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.
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I was 25 before I joined the world, in my opinion. I was a very late developer, and everything came late.
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It wasn't that I left acting; it's just that I put it aside while I set about becoming a comic.
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You worry about whether you are match-fit, coming back to the stand-up stage.