Saoirse Ronan Quotes
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I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.
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I've been dealing with so much press for Brooklyn, and now I am rehearsing for a play, and it is hard.
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What we do every St. Patty's day, which is wear green and drink a lot of Guinness. And maybe cry a little bit and laugh, and everyone will have to sing a song. That's how every funeral, christening, and wedding ends up in Ireland. Everyone ends up having to sing a song by the end of it.
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Acting is one of these things that I can't really describe - it's just like, why do you love your mum and dad? You know, you just do.
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I love New Zealand. It's my favorite place to shoot. It's one of my favorite countries to visit. The people, the food, the landscape, everything about it I love.
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I don't feel isolated on a film set. In a way you do because you don't really mix with the outside world; you're just sort of working non-stop for a few months, but you've got so many people around you.
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I would never want to move to L.A.
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'Romeo And Juliet' is the classic love story. When two lovers are separated and trying to get back to one another, that's fiercely romantic and something you become glued to.
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The majority of teenagers don't even make eye contact with people, even people of the same age.
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When I was younger, I would mess about and have a laugh with everyone. I was doing Atonement when I was about 12, and as we went to do this very serious scene, the director Joe [Wright] came up to me ... I'd been giggling right up to the beginning of the take. And he came up to me and said, "Okay, you need to be serious now." I completely idolized him.
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I remember being on Atonement and it felt very right to be there. There was so much excitement every day. I remember very vividly how it felt to be a child on a film set, and that is actually really important to hold on to for as long as you continue to make films.
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I play basketball, I surf and swim and go to the cinema and listen to music and read. I like shopping.
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I think acting is something that is within you. It's a very natural thing for me. It comes from myself, really.
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I'm Irish, so I'm messing all the time. Which means, I'm having a laugh. I'm always making jokes.
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The 1916 uprising was kind of the most important rebellion in Ireland's fight for independence that had been going on for 700 years. So it's a very important moment in history for us.
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I've basically grown up with Harry Potter, as so many kids my age have. It's kind of a part of my life.
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I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan. I literally love every single film. He hasn't made a bad film; I've seen every single one. They've all been brilliant, from 'Bottle Rocket' up to 'Moonrise Kingdom,' they've all been wonderful.
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Sometimes the director will want you to write about the character, sometimes he'll want you to live in the location that the character is from or something like that, but I don't usually make a lot of notes or anything like that.
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One of the things that would steer me away from a franchise is that I'm playing the same character all the time and I wouldn't want to be known for that.
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It's too distracting to read about yourself. You want to be perfect and you want everyone to love you, and that's never going to happen.
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I like films where there's a relationship between two women. I always think that's lovely to watch on the screen.
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We grew up with a camera in front of us.
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I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone.
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I don't think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead.
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There's no one out there like Quentin Tarantino. His films have a signature look, and they never just stick to the same kind of story.
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I grew up my whole life in Ireland and obviously sound very, very Irish. I feel like it's just one of those things that just charms the socks off of people.
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I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.
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When I was younger, I was very athletic and I always loved sports and physical things.
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I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.
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Joe Wright was almost like a teacher, to be firm with me, that really stuck with me. And that helped me as I've gotten older.
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