Dervla Kirwan Quotes

Honestly, people have said everything under the sun. I just want to do my work, raise my kids, and hopefully find somebody who I can share my life with again.

My greatest platform is not with all my degrees, everything else, it's not all my books, everything. It's that I'm known as a man who loves his wife and spends time with his children. That opens more; I speak as a daddy.

While I very much wanted to be in a relationship, I didn't want to be in the wrong one.

When I get married, I think what matters is you should be happy with the person you are living with.

My experience of what a loving relationship is like rings true with a lot of people I meet. I have a theory that the people you meet, one way you choose them, is their suitability for you in that particular matter. Attitudes toward friendship and marriage are in many cases closely aligned.

Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.

I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.

I'll date one day if I find someone that I want to let into my life enough.

Finding the one is not just a feeling, it's an educated guess. I feel like I chose someone to share my life with who is my friend.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

I could never fall in love just for money. I like my co-stars, and they are a bunch of good-looking men. But I've dated an actor. My dream man has to be a lot more than just good looking and rich!

I think for love to work you have to be with someone who you want to talk to before going to bed at night.

My mom and dad? Oh, they were a fiery pair. They stayed together for the kids and also because they were hopelessly in love with each other, but they were totally incompatible.

Being with my kids is really important to me, being a good dad and being around a lot.

I would be ready to become a dad if I was with the right person. I'd like a boy, though. Because they're in charge.

When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

I've longed for kids since I was very, very young. And so... I'm waiting to find the right person, someone who's willing to take on the job.

In 'Friday Night Lights,' the relationship between the coach and his wife, that marriage was something that you couldn't really understand until you actually saw it exist on film.

I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.

I've got five kids and I'm married, Tommy's got two kids and he's been married, Vince just got married again, Mick's out of a relationship, Tommy's single as well. We've done a lot in our life, we've covered a lot of miles.

Hopefully you marry someone who you not only love, but who you like as well.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life.

I would like to get married, but it must be a man who is part of my work, or me part of his.