Fiona Shaw

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

The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

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.

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

I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.

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

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

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

There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.

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

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

The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.