Fiona Shaw quotes Born: 07/10/1958 Country: ireland

• A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano. (Fiona Shaw) [people/drawing]
• Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time. (Fiona Shaw) [time]
• 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) [willpower/take/state/democracy]
• And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation. (Fiona Shaw) [feelings/nation]
• And I can remember that extraordinary moment when you first see the words, instead of having to make them out letter by letter. (Fiona Shaw) [remember/moment/words/letter]
• Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy. (Fiona Shaw) [happiness/joy]
• Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born. (Fiona Shaw) [generation]
• I can hardly decide what plays I should be in. (Fiona Shaw)
• I certainly had no intention of playing a man. (Fiona Shaw)
• I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity. (Fiona Shaw) [find]
• I had a ball doing Harry Potter. (Fiona Shaw)
• I haven't been in most movies because I was so focused on theatre but I would love to be part of a well-funded ensemble. (Fiona Shaw) [theatre/love]
• I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride. (Fiona Shaw) [think]
• I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things. (Fiona Shaw) [bad/theatre/bad]
• I mainly drink wine and eat out a lot. (Fiona Shaw) [/wine]
• I mainly have a nice time in my life. (Fiona Shaw) [nice/time/life]
• I must do some film because I can't keep on doing plays at this rate or I'd die. (Fiona Shaw) [film]
• I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it. (Fiona Shaw) [take/seriously]
• I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them. (Fiona Shaw) [think/america/more/time]
• I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland. (Fiona Shaw) [love]
• I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born. (Fiona Shaw) [writers/writers]
• 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. (Fiona Shaw) [more/time/find]
• Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history. (Fiona Shaw) [people]
• It's a pity to turn our back on that very important ritual which is tragedy. It's a life-saver, a soul-saver. (Fiona Shaw) [pity/ritual]
• It's praised for fulfilling the expectations of the audience when it should surpass the expectations of the audience. (Fiona Shaw)
• My mother taught me to read. (Fiona Shaw) [mother]
• Now I have begun to get interested in films and I just hope that people start becoming interested in me to do more films. (Fiona Shaw) [people/start/more]
• Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while. (Fiona Shaw) [literary style]
• One moment cannot be the most important. (Fiona Shaw) [moment]
• People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera. (Fiona Shaw) [people/film]
• So I just play the character, I play the lines. (Fiona Shaw) [character]

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