Fiona Shaw Quotes

I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.

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• When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Up
  • Country
  • American

• If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • May
  • Help

• The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • America
  • Nature
  • Future

• We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • People
  • Past
  • Change

• 'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Heart
  • Place
  • Special

• It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Change
  • Hair
  • Color

• One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Things
  • Big
  • Activity

• If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Patterns

• I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Me
  • Always
  • Acting

• The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.

  

  Iman
  • You
  • Day
  • Settle

• When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Die
  • Ship

• I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• That's the problem today: Who is the creator?

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Today
  • Problem
  • Creator

• When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Sister
  • Young
  • Ugly

• That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Character
  • Together
  • Teach

• There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

  

  Sally Field
  • Beautiful
  • Feel
  • Parts

• Soviet expansionism in Europe, the battle for control of China, and the 1950 invasion of South Korea would shatter once-euphoric dreams of post-war cooperation with the Kremlin.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • War
  • Control
  • Dreams

• I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Think
  • Listening
  • Could

• Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Good
  • Success

• He is not the soul of Nature, nor any part of Nature. He inhabits eternity: He dwells in a high and holy place: heaven is His throne, not his vehicle, earth is his footstool, not his vesture. One day he will dismantle both and make a new heaven and earth. He is not to be identified even with the 'divine spark' in man. He is 'God and not man.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Nature
  • High

• I have been misunderstood more than I've been understood in my life.

  

  Amy Koppelman
  • My Life
  • Misunderstood

• I was happy enough; I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Happy
  • Night
  • Morning

• If you think you are in control, you're fooling yourself. As soon as you start listening, you realize you're not in control. And letting go will yield more and better results.

  

  Charlene Li
  • Listening
  • Realizing
  • Results

• I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Should
  • I Can
  • Decide