Top 41 Quotes by Fiona Shaw

I had a ball doing Harry Potter.

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.

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

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

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

Theater dates very quickly.

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.

Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.