Fiona Shaw

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

“I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.”

“A relationship is sent by God and accident.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“So I just play the character, I play the lines.”

“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.”

“Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.”

“This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.”

“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.”

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

“My mother taught me to read.”

“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.”

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

“I had a ball doing Harry Potter.”

“Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.”

“The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.”

“I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.”