Top 33 Saoirse Ronan Quotes

The written word can be powerful and beautiful – but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.

I don’t think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead.

I think it’s important that we have strong, female characters in movies now, which can really leave an impression on people – especially young people – and that they’re not ‘sexy’ or ‘cool.’

There’s no one out there like Quentin Tarantino. His films have a signature look, and they never just stick to the same kind of story.

Lindsay Lohan was the ‘It’ girl from, like, 14. That’s a lot of pressure.

I play basketball, I surf and swim and go to the cinema and listen to music and read. I like shopping.

If you don’t have eyebrows, you don’t really have a face.

Sometimes the director will want you to write about the character, sometimes he’ll want you to live in the location that the character is from or something like that, but I don’t usually make a lot of notes or anything like that.

When I was younger, I was very athletic and I always loved sports and physical things.

Vampire teeth really aren’t very efficient, are they? It looks very messy. I’m not sure it’s the best way to get a pint off anyone.

That’s what acting is. You’re pretending to be someone else.

I would never want to move to L.A.

When I was younger and in primary school, I’d do maybe a film a year, and I had to adapt to being away from everyone for a couple of months.

I think when you get on with the actors that you’re working with, even if you do have really intimate scenes, as long as you get on well, and have a bit of a laugh while doing it, then it’s fine.

I really want to go to college.

I’ve always been quite mature because of the way my parents brought me up. They were very good at talking to me like a person rather than a baby, and I was around so many actors and directors from such a young age because my dad is an actor. I was more comfortable with adults rather than actually being an adult child.

I listen to everything. I love The Chemical Brothers.

I’ve never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.

Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.

There are a lot of people who say, ‘Yeah yeah, I’m a feminist,’ and they’re not, actually. I wouldn’t want to throw that word around, because it’s a very strong thing.

I think acting is something that is within you. It’s a very natural thing for me. It comes from myself, really.

It’s very intimate. There are certain moments where it feels like it’s just you and the lens. It’s something that has been a very stable, consistent thing in my life.

I love cleaning. I love mopping the floor. If you need your floor mopped, I’m there.

Everyone thinks I’m ethereal. But I’m not like that, you know. I’m not ethereal. Well, I might have a little bit of that quality to me, that ‘old soul’ thing, but I’m not ethereal.

I’ve grown up with my parents’ music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

I saw ‘Clueless’ probably when I was about 8 or 9 years old. And, I had certain films that I would fall asleep so it was ‘Clueless’ for quite a long time, and I used to just watch it every single night and knew every single line, every single quote.

I think I do believe in the afterlife; I have heard stories from people who I can completely trust that have seen ghosts.

I love a lot of comedy actors and actresses like Kristen Wiig and Tina Fey and all those women who are really brilliant and funny.

The majority of teenagers don’t even make eye contact with people, even people of the same age.

One of the things that would steer me away from a franchise is that I’m playing the same character all the time and I wouldn’t want to be known for that.

I don’t look at rushes, or I don’t go to the dailies. I don’t even really look at playback… unless it’s an action scene or a move that I need to do better, something like that.

I was born in New York, so I’d love to study at New York University.

I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don’t want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone.