Quotes from Martin Shaw

I tend to get starstruck with sports people. I was on a chat show with retired Scottish footballer Denis Law and I just lost it and couldn't talk to him.

If I won the lottery,I would love to buy an airfield and populate it with enthusiasts like myself, and old airplanes.

Are there any celebs I'd like to meet? I'd love to meet the Dalai Lama.

Be a vegetarian. That was the best advice I ever took. It means I'm not involved in killing, that's the main thing.

The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.

This is weft and the weave of story for me. The endless lyrical emerging of the earth's tremendous thinking and the humbling required to simply bear witness to it. And the extraordinary day, when for an hour or so you realise that you too are being witnessed.

It may not look like much, not with all these other distractions, but we make things holy by the kind of attention we give them.

It is your task to walk back from the woods with an animal, not a pelt, not a corpse, but something alive. Curate that energy, feed it, don't domesticate it, make culture from it. It should be walking alongside you, not slung over your shoulder. You build your structures from its growls.

It's a time of great paradox: we want to live forever but seem intent on executing the earth.

Well, I offer a retuning of intention, a slightly more sober directive—to be of a place, to labour under a related indebtedness to a stretch of earth that you have not claimed but which has claimed you.

The long-departed cave lion is more indigenous to the moor than I will ever be.

So, as you may be sensing, I wasn't quite cooked.