Zitat des Tages von Fiona Shaw:
I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.
A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.
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.
Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
I had a ball doing Harry Potter.
This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.
So I just play the character, I play the lines.
The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.
Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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.
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.
One moment cannot be the most important.
A relationship is sent by God and accident.
I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
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.
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.
And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.
People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.
Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.
I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.
Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.
Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.
I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
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.
Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.
I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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.
Theater dates very quickly.