Fionnula Flanagan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.
-- Fionnula Flanagan

#Acting #Males #World
People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.
-- Fionnula Flanagan

#Thinking #Issues #People
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
-- Fionnula Flanagan

#Sister #Sisterhood #Secret
I think Irish women are strong as horses, incredibly loyal and for the most part, funny, witty, bright and optimistic in the face of devastating reality.
-- Fionnula Flanagan

#Witty #Strong #Horse
There's still a great hesitancy in the Irish make up about expressing feelings... it'd be nice to say I miss you, I love you, come home.
-- Fionnula Flanagan

#Nice #Love You #Home

I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.
It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.
Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.
For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.
Few males achieve any real freedom in their sexual relations even with their wives. Few males realise how badly inhibited they are on these matters.
God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
A divided heart loses both worlds.
I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasnâ€™t easy. I didnâ€™t ask for this. I didnâ€™t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

Fionnula Flanagan famous quotes

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