Top 41 Quotes by Fiona Shaw

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.

Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.

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

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

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

I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

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

There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.