Brenda Fricker

"Clinical depression passes but it's tough, it's very tough."

"I get to vote in the Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Director categories every year. The Academy sends you hundreds of DVDs and you have to spend all bloody day looking at them, making note of who's who and then fill out a form they send you, of who you think is worthy."

"When women get married and have children they move away from their friends and they don't stay in touch with them as much, they put their family first. And me not having children and not having a husband, being completely on my own, all my friends are married and have kids so I'm very isolated."

"I'd like to thank Christy Brown just for being alive. I'd like to thank Christy's mother. Anyone who gives birth 22 times deserves it."

"The iPad is great because you can enlarge the print on it."

"I suffered from depression for 50 years. But now I go to a therapist once a week, purely to have a conversation and to hear another human voice."

"I sometimes say things for a joke, and they are picked up the wrong way."

"It can be very dark. I turn the phone off and put the blinds down. I do pre-record some good programs and I have my dog and I get myself through it that way. I don't want to be sounding kind of negative but it is a different kind of Christmas, that's all."

"I'm not a high-energy person."