Quotes By Fiona Shaw

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

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

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

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

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

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

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

I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

My mother taught me to read.

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

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.