Best 27 quotes of Fiona Shaw on MyQuotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I had a ball doing Harry Potter.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

One moment cannot be the most important.

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

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

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

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

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.

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

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

This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.

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.