Maria Doyle Kennedy Quotes

Maria Doyle Kennedy — Irish Musician born on September 25, 1964,

Maria Josephine Doyle Kennedy is an Irish singer, songwriter, and television/film actress. With a singing career that has spanned nearly thirty years and an acting career that has spanned twenty five, she has established herself as one of Ireland's most prolific artists and entertainers. As an actress, she is best known for her film role as Natalie Murphy in The Commitments and for her extensive television roles as Catherine of Aragon on The Tudors, Vera Bates on Downton Abbey, and Siobhán Sadler on Orphan Black. As a musician, she is well known for her world wide hit folk albums Mütter and Sing, as well as for releasing two albums between 1989 and 1992 as part of The Black Velvet Band... (wikipedia)

Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.

I think everybody likes to play the villain. They're always much more interesting characters.

Music just makes sense to me. I don't ever worry when I'm singing. It's the safest place. I am a bit of worrier.

I like singing practically more than anything else, and I want to be the best, but I don't want to sacrifice time with my children.

I didn't go to drama school or anything, and I learned on the job. And it's nice to have the chance to pretend to be other people. As a singer, though, I feel there's much more of me in that. I've written the songs, I'm singing them, I'm exposing my feelings.

Maria Doyle Kennedy Quotes

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