Fiona Shaw Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. Its exciting when you hit on a new way.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

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

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

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

One moment cannot be the most important.

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

There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.

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

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

A relationship is sent by God and accident.

I had a ball doing Harry Potter.

This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.

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

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

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

I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.

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

Theater dates very quickly.

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

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.

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