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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 mainly drink wine and eat out a lot.
-- 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

I've enjoyed it and I would like to make more films because it allows me this terrible time I need to find out what it is I want to do.
-- Fiona Shaw

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

It's praised for fulfilling the expectations of the audience when it should surpass the expectations of the audience.
-- 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

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

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