She did more work on the stage, including the New York stage. When I was 7 years old, I spent six months in New York when both of my parents were on Broadway. Before she died 12 years ago, Mother won the Evening Standard award in London, the equivalent of an Emmy. And she preferred playing to a live audience. I mean, actors are always struggling, except for the odd few that you read about who make millions.
Many actors are just dedicated to what they do.
Apart from not earning money, I think that it must be such a strain not to be able to get work, to be sitting around for four or five months getting rejected. I had sounded like a right tulip coming up with that remark. I cracked up laughing at myself. But really, playing poker started off as a part-time thing for me. As a student at Trinity College in Dublin I was making more money at poker than I could have made at a job.