SAOIRSE RONAN

Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.

I've always been quite mature because of the way my parents brought me up. They were very good at talking to me like a person rather than a baby, and I was around so many actors and directors from such a young age because my dad is an actor. I was more comfortable with adults rather than actually being an adult child.

All teenagers want to rebel a little and break away. But I think you are always going to want to go back to your parents for that safety they provide.

I think acting is something that is within you. It's a very natural thing for me. It comes from myself, really.

I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone.

I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.

I was actually born in New York. We lived there until I was three so I grew up watching Sesame Street and hearing the accent. You are a sponge at that age, soaking everything up.

I like to get far away from myself when I'm acting.

I don't feel isolated on a film set. In a way you do because you don't really mix with the outside world; you're just sort of working non-stop for a few months, but you've got so many people around you.

Sometimes the director will want you to write about the character, sometimes he'll want you to live in the location that the character is from or something like that, but I don't usually make a lot of notes or anything like that.

I think if my child died I would prefer it if I were dead.

If you don't have eyebrows, you don't really have a face.

I love cleaning. I love mopping the floor. If you need your floor mopped, I'm there.

With stores like Topshop and H&M you can find really great stuff, but I do like designer things as well, and I'm lucky because they approach me to wear their stuff. I really love Miu Miu.

I really want to go to college.

It's too distracting to read about yourself. You want to be perfect and you want everyone to love you, and that's never going to happen.

The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.

If I'm in the middle of a take and I start to think about what I'm doing, I just mess up and I have to stop and so I find that for me, you really need to trust your instinct.

I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan. I literally love every single film. He hasn't made a bad film; I've seen every single one. They've all been brilliant, from 'Bottle Rocket' up to 'Moonrise Kingdom,' they've all been wonderful.

When I was younger and in primary school, I'd do maybe a film a year, and I had to adapt to being away from everyone for a couple of months.

I don't look at rushes, or I don't go to the dailies. I don't even really look at playback... unless it's an action scene or a move that I need to do better, something like that.

I listen to everything. I love The Chemical Brothers.

I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.