My mother taught me to read.

- Fiona Shaw

Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.

- Fiona Shaw

I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.

- Fiona Shaw

I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

- Fiona Shaw

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

- Fiona Shaw

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

- Fiona Shaw

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

- Fiona Shaw

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

- Fiona Shaw

I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

- Fiona Shaw

I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

- Fiona Shaw

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.

- Fiona Shaw

Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

- Fiona Shaw

Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.

- Fiona Shaw

One moment cannot be the most important.

- Fiona Shaw

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

- Fiona Shaw

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

- Fiona Shaw

Theater dates very quickly.

- Fiona Shaw

There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.

- Fiona Shaw

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

- Fiona Shaw

Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.

- Fiona Shaw