Sometimes the director will want you to write about the character, sometimes he'll want you to live in the location that the character is from or something like that, but I don't usually make a lot of notes or anything like that.

- Saoirse Ronan

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.

- Saoirse Ronan

Vampire teeth really aren't very efficient, are they? It looks very messy. I'm not sure it's the best way to get a pint off anyone.

- Saoirse Ronan

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.

- Saoirse Ronan

Everyone thinks I'm ethereal. But I'm not like that, you know. I'm not ethereal. Well, I might have a little bit of that quality to me, that 'old soul' thing, but I'm not ethereal.

- Saoirse Ronan

When I was younger, I was very athletic and I always loved sports and physical things.

- Saoirse Ronan

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.

- Saoirse Ronan

I love a lot of comedy actors and actresses like Kristen Wiig and Tina Fey and all those women who are really brilliant and funny.

- Saoirse Ronan

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.

- Saoirse Ronan

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.

- Saoirse Ronan

I play basketball, I surf and swim and go to the cinema and listen to music and read. I like shopping.

- Saoirse Ronan

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.

- Saoirse Ronan

I don't mind doing the whole red carpet thing when I have to when it comes to publicizing a movie. But besides that, I don't like those kinds of things at all. Celebrity status is not really something that appeals to me.

- Saoirse Ronan

I don't look at rushes, or I don't go to the dailies. I don't even really look at playback... unless it's an action scene or a move that I need to do better, something like that.

- Saoirse Ronan

When I was younger and in primary school, I'd do maybe a film a year, and I had to adapt to being away from everyone for a couple of months.

- Saoirse Ronan

There's no one out there like Quentin Tarantino. His films have a signature look, and they never just stick to the same kind of story.

- Saoirse Ronan

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.

- Saoirse Ronan

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.

- Saoirse Ronan

I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

- Saoirse Ronan

I've basically grown up with Harry Potter, as so many kids my age have. It's kind of a part of my life.

- Saoirse Ronan