Fiona Shaw Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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

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#Happiness Quotes #Joy Quotes #Kind Quotes

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

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#Talking Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Chaos Quotes

“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

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#Running Quotes #Want Quotes #Exhausted Quotes

“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

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#Mother Quotes #Brother Quotes #Uncles Quotes

“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.”
-- Fiona Shaw

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#Mother Quotes #Order Quotes #Singing Quotes

“One moment cannot be the most important.”
-- Fiona Shaw

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#Important Quotes #Moments Quotes

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

#Bored Quotes #Theater Quotes

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

#Theater Quotes #Performing Quotes #Stills Quotes

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

#Hot Quotes #Next Quotes #Born Quotes

“Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.”
-- Fiona Shaw

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#Style Quotes #Done Quotes

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

#Relief Quotes #Worst Quotes

“A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.”
-- Fiona Shaw

#Song Quotes #Play Quotes #Piano Quotes

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

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#Rights Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Gone Quotes

“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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#Hard Work Quotes #Joy Quotes #Elude Quotes

“I had a ball doing Harry Potter.”
-- Fiona Shaw

#Balls Quotes #Potters Quotes #Harry Potter Quotes

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

#People Quotes #Educated Quotes #Artistry Quotes

“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

#Mean Quotes #Years Quotes #Democracy Quotes

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

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#Energy Quotes #Actors Quotes #Enormous Quotes

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

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#Relationship Quotes #People Quotes #Cameras Quotes

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

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#Movie Quotes #Thinking Quotes #America Quotes

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

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#Hate Quotes #Conservative Quotes #Murder Quotes

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

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#Running Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Should Quotes

“This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.”
-- Fiona Shaw

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#Loyalty Quotes #Gone Quotes

“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

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#Happiness Quotes #Done Quotes #Demographics Quotes

“A relationship is sent by God and accident.”
-- Fiona Shaw

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#Accidents Quotes

“Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.”
-- Fiona Shaw

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#Acting Quotes #Misery Quotes

“And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.”
-- Fiona Shaw

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#Feelings Quotes

“Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.”
-- Fiona Shaw

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#Generations Quotes #Obsessed Quotes #Born Quotes

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

#Play Quotes #Should Quotes

“I certainly had no intention of playing a man.”
-- Fiona Shaw

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#Men Quotes #Intention Quotes