Latest Saoirse Ronan Quotes from Interviews

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• I love New Zealand. It's my favorite place to shoot. It's one of my favorite countries to visit. The people, the food, the landscape, everything about it I love.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Country, People, Favorite Places

• I did find New Zealand similar to Ireland. The people, obviously. I found that, ironically, although these two countries were very far away from each other, their humor was so similar and their outlook on things was quite similar as well.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Country, Two, People

• I don't know what kind of swag I'd get if I were extra Irish. It would just be, like, extra potatoes. Or like a free pint of Guinness.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Swag, Potatoes, Kind

  "The legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

• I grew up my whole life in Ireland and obviously sound very, very Irish. I feel like it's just one of those things that just charms the socks off of people.

  Saoirse Ronan

  People, Sound, Grew Up

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My name means freedom in Irish.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Mean, Names

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• What we do every St. Patty's day, which is wear green and drink a lot of Guinness. And maybe cry a little bit and laugh, and everyone will have to sing a song. That's how every funeral, christening, and wedding ends up in Ireland. Everyone ends up having to sing a song by the end of it.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Song, Laughing, Funeral

  "The legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

• The 1916 uprising was kind of the most important rebellion in Ireland's fight for independence that had been going on for 700 years. So it's a very important moment in history for us.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Fighting, Years, Uprising

  "The legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

• I appreciate the written word and spoken word more, but Atonement sort of established so much of me. It was a character that didn't really speak, and I found that a lot of the roles I was gravitating toward after that were kind of nonverbal.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Character, Appreciate, Roles

  "The legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

• I've found that I'd be the first one to cut lines.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Cutting, Lines, Firsts

  "The legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

• I was 12 and I remember every­thing. I mean, I had done two films before that. The first was actually with Amy Heckerling. It was so brilliant to work with her on my first film. Atonement was the third one I'd done, and I remember how it felt to arrive on set every day. I remember how it felt to get my wig off at the end of the day. I remember how hot it was.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Mean, Two, The End Of The Day

  "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

• I remember being on Atonement and it felt very right to be there. There was so much excitement every day. I remember very vividly how it felt to be a child on a film set, and that is actually really important to hold on to for as long as you continue to make films.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Children, Long, Important

  "The legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

• We grew up with a camera in front of us.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Cameras, Grew Up, Grew

  "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

• I certainly don't feel like I am desperate to run away from a film set. I love the hustle and bustle. Everything is sort of mad right before a take, and then it just settles, and you've got these two minutes of a bit of magic. I just love that in film.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Running, Two, Hustle And Bustle

  "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

• Ivo van Hove is directing The Crucible, and rehearses in quite an unusual way. We started rehearsals last week and dived straight into the first act, like, five minutes after we all turned up. No warm-ups. We were very intensely immersed in that whole world on day one. It was quite surreal because I've never done any theater before.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Crucible, Done, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When I am on set or rehearsing for the play, the only thing I can talk about is the work I'm doing. In that way, I home in on what I am doing at the time. So maybe I am a terrible multitasker.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Home, Play, Way

  "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Jodie Foster, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

• When I was younger, I would mess about and have a laugh with everyone. I was doing Atonement when I was about 12, and as we went to do this very serious scene, the director Joe [Wright] came up to me ... I'd been giggling right up to the beginning of the take. And he came up to me and said, "Okay, you need to be serious now." I completely idolized him.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Laughing, Directors, Needs

  "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Jodie Foster, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

• Joe Wright was almost like a teacher, to be firm with me, that really stuck with me. And that helped me as I've gotten older.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Teacher, Stuck, Firm

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm all right, not as good as my mom is. Maybe because I don't have kids.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Mom, Kids, My Mom

  "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Jodie Foster, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

• I've been dealing with so much press for Brooklyn, and now I am rehearsing for a play, and it is hard.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Play, Brooklyn, Rehearsing

  "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

• There's so many modern films where the fans take one side or the other. I'm hoping this isn't going to be like that; I'm hoping it isn't that kind of film at all. What I would love for the audience to take from it is to understand why she was so stuck in the middle and confused.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Confused, Sides, Fans

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm very much for strengthening our industry at home. It's great now there's a lot of work happening but I think with Irish film in particular, the views were starting to get a little stereotypical and we were pigeonholing ourselves a little bit. We needed to get out of that.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Home, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• We've done a lot of films now about the IRA, we can move on from all that. I loved '71 because I think it showed a very honest trail and what it was actually like. It wasn't one-sided. I really respect ['71 director] Yann [Demange] for what he did. But we have done a lot of those things.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Moving, Thinking, Directors

  "Saoirse Ronan’s First Sundance". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 2, 2015.

• I try as best as I can to have a normal life. People recognise you, of course, and that's very strange. But I sort of leave my working life behind when I go home. That's my other world.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Home, Other Worlds, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I've always been quite an active person especially when I was younger. When I was in primary school, I used to play lots of sports. I was a sprinter and I did basketball and swimming and Gaelic football and things like that. So I always thought, I guess, that it would be fun to incorporate that much physical activity and work into a dramatic piece.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Basketball, Sports, Football

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• When I can't get the character out of my head, and I'm in my bedroom and I start to actually act out the scenes that I've read in a script, I think okay, I really want to do this.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Character, Thinking, Want

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca