I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.
Fiona Shaw

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.
Fiona Shaw

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

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.
Fiona Shaw

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.
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

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.
Fiona Shaw

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

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

Theater dates very quickly.
Fiona Shaw

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

There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
Fiona Shaw

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

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

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

This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.
Fiona Shaw