Quotes from Saoirse Ronan

I'm Irish, so I'm messing all the time. Which means, I'm having a laugh. I'm always making jokes.

I think I do believe in the afterlife; I have heard stories from people who I can completely trust that have seen ghosts.

I don't think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead.

It's too distracting to read about yourself. You want to be perfect and you want everyone to love you, and that's never going to happen.

I love cleaning. I love mopping the floor. If you need your floor mopped, I'm there.

With stores like Topshop and H&M you can find really great stuff, but I do like designer things as well, and I'm lucky because they approach me to wear their stuff. I really love Miu Miu.

'Romeo And Juliet' is the classic love story. When two lovers are separated and trying to get back to one another, that's fiercely romantic and something you become glued to.

I listen to everything. I love The Chemical Brothers.

I love New Zealand. It's my favorite place to shoot. It's one of my favorite countries to visit. The people, the food, the landscape, everything about it I love.

I was born in New York, so I'd love to study at New York University.

Acting is one of these things that I can't really describe - it's just like, why do you love your mum and dad? You know, you just do.

The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.

There are a lot of people who say, 'Yeah yeah, I'm a feminist,' and they're not, actually. I wouldn't want to throw that word around, because it's a very strong thing.

I saw 'Clueless' probably when I was about 8 or 9 years old. And, I had certain films that I would fall asleep so it was 'Clueless' for quite a long time, and I used to just watch it every single night and knew every single line, every single quote.

I think when you get on with the actors that you're working with, even if you do have really intimate scenes, as long as you get on well, and have a bit of a laugh while doing it, then it's fine.

I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.

I've always been quite mature because of the way my parents brought me up. They were very good at talking to me like a person rather than a baby, and I was around so many actors and directors from such a young age because my dad is an actor. I was more comfortable with adults rather than actually being an adult child.

I don't feel isolated on a film set. In a way you do because you don't really mix with the outside world; you're just sort of working non-stop for a few months, but you've got so many people around you.

I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan. I literally love every single film. He hasn't made a bad film; I've seen every single one. They've all been brilliant, from 'Bottle Rocket' up to 'Moonrise Kingdom,' they've all been wonderful.

I think it's important that we have strong, female characters in movies now, which can really leave an impression on people - especially young people - and that they're not 'sexy' or 'cool.'

One of the things that would steer me away from a franchise is that I'm playing the same character all the time and I wouldn't want to be known for that.

When I can't get the character out of my head, and I'm in my bedroom and I start to actually act out the scenes that I've read in a script, I think okay, I really want to do this.

If I'm in the middle of a take and I start to think about what I'm doing, I just mess up and I have to stop and so I find that for me, you really need to trust your instinct.

I think 'Twilight' was such a phenomenon that it will be awhile before anything like that will happen again. Cause it really influenced pop culture, and the stars of it - well, the people who became stars out of it - their lives were completely changed.