Fiona Shaw Quotes
"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."
- Fiona Shaw
(Related: Writers)
"I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it."
- Fiona Shaw
(Related: Theater)
"I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland."
- Fiona Shaw
(Related: Love, Ireland)
"The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain."
- Fiona Shaw
(Related: Democracy, Duty, Rights, Meaning, Word)
"I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them."
- Fiona Shaw
(Related: Movies, Time, America)
"People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera."
- Fiona Shaw
(Related: People, Film)
"Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history."
- Fiona Shaw
(Related: History, People, Irish)
"My mother taught me to read."
- Fiona Shaw
(Related: Mother)
"Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while."
- Fiona Shaw
(Related: Style)
"One moment cannot be the most important."
- Fiona Shaw
"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."
- Fiona Shaw
(Related: Business, English, Irish, Joy, Right)
"This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone."
- Fiona Shaw
(Related: Loyalty)
"There's something about the Irish that is remarkable."
- Fiona Shaw
(Related: Irish, Remarkable)
"There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing."
- Fiona Shaw
(Related: Theater)
"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."
- Fiona Shaw
(Related: Happiness, Money, Ireland)
"There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously."
- Fiona Shaw
"Theater dates very quickly."
- Fiona Shaw
(Related: Theater)
"The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor."
- Fiona Shaw
(Related: Power, Actor, Energy)
"The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns."
- Fiona Shaw
(Related: Americans)
"I had a ball doing Harry Potter."
- Fiona Shaw
"I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride."
- Fiona Shaw
(Related: Disney)
"Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way."
- Fiona Shaw
(Related: Open, Repetition, Theater)
"A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano."
- Fiona Shaw
(Related: People, Irish, Play, Songs)
"I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity."
- Fiona Shaw
(Related: Conservative, Hate)
"I certainly had no intention of playing a man."
- Fiona Shaw
(Related: Intention, Man)
"I can hardly decide what plays I should be in."
- Fiona Shaw
"Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born."
- Fiona Shaw
"Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy."
- Fiona Shaw
(Related: Happiness, Irish, Joy, Nothing)
"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."
- Fiona Shaw
(Related: Democracy, State, Will, Years)
"Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time."
- Fiona Shaw
(Related: Time, Acting, Misery)