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.

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

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

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.

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.

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

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

One moment cannot be the most important.

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.