Nicola Coughlan

“It's certainly been a lesson; the way for me, I guess, to counteract impostor syndrome is just work really hard and just put everything into it.”

“I always want to do my best job and not let people down, and it's wild being on a show that has hundreds of millions of viewers around the world.”

“There's a real danger in writing or acting as therapy because if you've ever been on-screen with someone or on stage or worked with a writer that is trying to work through issues, it's a mess. No matter what you're trying to deal with, I think you have to be removed enough from it to deal with it because otherwise it can just be a disaster.”

“I love when you watch a piece of television, and it just blows your mind.”

“I remember in my late 20s, early 30s, when people would start getting engaged and having babies and you go, 'but what does that mean for us?' It's a selfish thing, but you also just love your friend. You don't want to lose that version of them.”

“I really feel like audiences are a lot smarter than people give them credit for.”

“People are so afraid of ambitious women.”

“I really hate vanity on screen.”

“Growing up in the west of Ireland with very little sunlight, and not being able to afford holidays to sunny places, probably did my skin a lot of good.”

“When we were filming the first series of 'Derry Girls,' I worried whether people would like it.”

“I think it's very easy to tell when the clothes are wearing the person, and not the other way around.”

“I love a dark, moody drama as much as the next person, but there was a real gap for something like 'Bridgerton.' We certainly didn't think it was going to be the No 1 show on Netflix... How do you process that? You don't, I think, is the answer.”

“RuPaul told me I was funny, so I can die happy now.”

“So much is put on the notion of the overnight success. I never wanted to pretend that's who I was.”

“You have to have a level of delusion to think, I can really sustain myself pretending to be other people.”

“When 'Derry Girls' went out in 2018, it quickly became Channel 4's most successful comedy in 13 years, proving what I'd long suspected: that there was a hunger for stories about women and girls.”

“I worked a million different jobs, lived in different places, lived in terrible house shares with mould on the walls.”

“Something in our society tells us that women's bodies are fair game for scrutiny in a way that men's simply are not.”

“I have an allergy to difficult people. I've literally had stress rash from them.”

“I think female friends, friendships of any kind, just deserve more representation because the impact they have on our lives are huge.”