Fiona Shaw Quotes

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.

Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.

It was the most exciting sentence I've ever heard," Lydia said. Reaching out, she stroked the back of Jean's hand. "In front of your friends, to call me your love.

we discovered that some great minds have the same passions, and now look where we are

he put his check to the hive.
"Remember me," he said, and he made his voice smooth as smoke. "Don't wake up, just listen out in your dreams, bees, and you'll hear.

There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.

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

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

A relationship is sent by God and accident.

Theater dates very quickly.

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

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

I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

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

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

This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.

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

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

One moment cannot be the most important.

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

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