Fiona Shaw Quotes

• I’m not afraid of chaos and I’m happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I’m going.

  Fiona Shaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Afraid, Really, Happy

• 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.

  Fiona Shaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Anything, Great, Writer

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

  Fiona Shaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Educated

• 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.

  Fiona Shaw

  Topics in History

  Tags in Read, Generation

• 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.

  Fiona Shaw

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Play, Used

• My mother taught me to read.

  Fiona Shaw

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Taught

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

  Fiona Shaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Style

• One moment cannot be the most important.

  Fiona Shaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Important, Moment

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

  Fiona Shaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Relationship, Good

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

  Fiona Shaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Character, Play

• The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

  Fiona Shaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Clear, Obsessed

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

  Fiona Shaw

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Rights, Meaning

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

  Fiona Shaw

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Audience, Actor

• Theater dates very quickly.

  Fiona Shaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Theater

• Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It’s exciting when you hit on a new way.

  Fiona Shaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Theater, Exciting

• There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.

  Fiona Shaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Experiencing, Great

• There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

  Fiona Shaw

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Happiness, True

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

  Fiona Shaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Professional, Performing

• There’s something about the Irish that is remarkable.

  Fiona Shaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Something, Irish

• This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.

  Fiona Shaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Loyalty

Fiona Shaw (41)

Birth:	10th July, 1958
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Actress, Theatre director

About

Fiona Shaw was born in County Cork, Ireland. She is an Irish actress and theatre and opera director, known for her role as Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter films and her role as Marnie Stonebrook in season four of the HBO series True Blood. She has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, twice winning the Olivier Award for Best Actress; for various roles including Electra in 1990, and for Machinal in 1994. She won the 1997 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance for The Waste Land. She received her degree in University College Cork. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. In 2008, she directed her first opera, Riders to the Sea by Vaughan Williams and in 2010 her second Elegy for Young Lovers by Hans Werner Henze. In 2013 she directed The Rape of Lucretia by composer Benjamin Britten and librettist Ronald Duncan for the Glyndebourne Tour.

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