Quotes from Fiona Shaw

When I dance, it's you I dance with. I think about you all the time. I don't understand, but I'm so tired with keeping it in.

It was the most exciting sentence I've ever heard," Lydia said. Reaching out, she stroked the back of Jean's hand. "In front of your friends, to call me your love

you couldn't set a scale to the sadness by knowing what gave rise to it. She didn't understand why some were stuck harder than others, but she knew that it was so.

I with they'd stop thinking that I wanted any extra man", she said, and the cat arched ever so slightly and slept on.

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.

This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

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

I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

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 enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

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.

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