Fiona Shaw Quotes
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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.
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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.
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There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
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Now I have begun to get interested in films and I just hope that people start becoming interested in me to do more films.
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A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
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I had a ball doing Harry Potter.
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And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.
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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.
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There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.
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There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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A relationship is sent by God and accident.
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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.
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Theater is dangerously open to repetition. Its exciting when you hit on a new way.
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One moment cannot be the most important.
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because its repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
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This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.
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I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.
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I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
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The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.
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Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.
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I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride.
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I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.
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I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
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The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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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.
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I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.
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