Fiona Shaw

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

“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.”

“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.”

“There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.”

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

“People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.”