An Irish-born stage actress often (to her dismay) compared to Vanessa Redgrave, Fiona Shaw has been making... (Learn more)
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"I don't suppose any of us involved in the classical theater here thought we could have or particularly wanted film careers. Film is about faces, especially for women, and theater is about acting". --Fiona Shaw to the Daily News April 23, 2000
"I take the theatre seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it. I find it incredibly tedious, I hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity . . . It's praised for fulfilling the expectations of the audience when it should surpass the expectations of the audience . . . The nice thing about movie roles is that someone else has done all the worrying. I had lots of qualms about doing 'Three Men and a Little Lady,' only to find that it caused more delight to more children in the world than all my worried projects put together." --Fiona Shaw quoted at Salon in 1995
Describing long-time collaborator Deborah Warner at Salon (January 17, 1997), Shaw said: "I can be brave as a lion and go further than I would dare go with anyone else because I trust her totally. Her taste is impeccable".
Sydney Weinberg in Time Out New York, (November 21-28, 1996) describes Fiona Shaw and Deborah Warner as "not so much The Terrible Twins as T.S. Eliot's 'mermaids singing to each other'."
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