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

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

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

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

Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
Fiona Shaw

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

I had a ball doing Harry Potter.
Fiona Shaw

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

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

I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.
Fiona Shaw

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
Fiona Shaw

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.
Fiona Shaw

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

My mother taught me to read.
Fiona Shaw

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

One moment cannot be the most important.
Fiona Shaw

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
Fiona Shaw

So I just play the character, I play the lines.
Fiona Shaw