1.
Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
Fiona Shaw
2.
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
3.
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
4.
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.
Fiona Shaw
5.
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
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And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.
Fiona Shaw
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The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.
Fiona Shaw
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Theater is dangerously open to repetition. Its exciting when you hit on a new way.
Fiona Shaw
9.
There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.
Fiona Shaw
10.
The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.
Fiona Shaw
11.
I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
Fiona Shaw
12.
I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
Fiona Shaw
13.
I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.
Fiona Shaw
14.
Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
Fiona Shaw
15.
Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.
Fiona Shaw
16.
Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.
Fiona Shaw
17.
I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
Fiona Shaw
18.
I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.
Fiona Shaw
19.
People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
Fiona Shaw
20.
I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.
Fiona Shaw
21.
Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
Fiona Shaw
22.
One moment cannot be the most important.
Fiona Shaw
23.
Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
Fiona Shaw
24.
Theater dates very quickly.
Fiona Shaw
25.
I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.
Fiona Shaw
26.
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
27.
There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.
Fiona Shaw
28.
I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
Fiona Shaw
29.
I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because its repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
Fiona Shaw
30.
I had a ball doing Harry Potter.
Fiona Shaw
31.
I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.
Fiona Shaw
32.
A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
Fiona Shaw
33.
There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
Fiona Shaw
34.
I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride.
Fiona Shaw
35.
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.
Fiona Shaw
36.
The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
Fiona Shaw
37.
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.
Fiona Shaw
38.
This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.
Fiona Shaw
39.
A relationship is sent by God and accident.
Fiona Shaw
