Fiona Shaw Quotes

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

Happiness, Nothing, Joy

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

Run, Ride, Disney

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.
Fiona Shaw

Irish, Remarkable

This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.
Fiona Shaw

Loyalty, Whole, Seems

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

Time, Good, Movies

The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
Fiona Shaw

Democracy, Word, Rights

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

Happiness, Money, True

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

Business, Live, Joy

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

Saint Patrick's Day, Play, Irish

A relationship is sent by God and accident.
Fiona Shaw

God, Accident, Sent

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

Time, Acting, Misery

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

Mean, Democracy, Around

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

Feelings, Nation, Actually

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

Before, Born, Generation

Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
Fiona Shaw

Men, Three, Lady

I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.
Fiona Shaw

Decide, Hardly, Plays

I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
Fiona Shaw

Playing, Intention

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

Heart, Night, Enjoy

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

Hate, Find, Tedious

I had a ball doing Harry Potter.
Fiona Shaw

Ball, Potter, Harry

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
Fiona Shaw

Bad, Sometimes, Theatre

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

Mother, Through, Same

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

Bored, Seriously, Theater

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

Love, Write, Story

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

Before, Often, Next

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Born: July 10, 1958

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