Fiona Shaw Quotes (47 Quotes)

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

And I can remember that extraordinary moment when you first see the words, instead of having to make them out letter by letter.

It's praised for fulfilling the expectations of the audience when it should surpass the expectations of the audience.

I mainly drink wine and eat out a lot.

I had a ball doing Harry Potter.

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

One moment cannot be the most important.

Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.

I mainly have a nice time in my life.

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

Theater dates very quickly.

I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.

And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.

I've enjoyed it and I would like to make more films because it allows me this terrible time I need to find out what it is I want to do.

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.

Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.

My mother taught me to read.

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

A relationship is sent by God and accident.

My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.

Now I have begun to get interested in films and I just hope that people start becoming interested in me to do more films.

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.

This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.

There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.

I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.

Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.

I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.

So I just play the character, I play the lines.

I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride.