64 Quotes by Fiona Shaw

The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

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

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