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

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 Quote

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

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

I had a ball doing Harry Potter.
- Fiona Shaw Quote

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

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
- Fiona Shaw Quote

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

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

One moment cannot be the most important.
- Fiona Shaw Quote

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

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

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

Theater dates very quickly.
- Fiona Shaw Quote
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 Quote

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

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.
- Fiona Shaw Quote

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