Saoirse Ronan Thinking Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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

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 like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.

If I'm in the middle of a take and I start to think about what I'm doing, I just mess up and I have to stop and so I find that for me, you really need to trust your instinct.

All teenagers want to rebel a little and break away. But I think you are always going to want to go back to your parents for that safety they provide.

I like books that are exciting and that make you think about things as well.

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 'Twilight' was such a phenomenon that it will be awhile before anything like that will happen again. Cause it really influenced pop culture, and the stars of it - well, the people who became stars out of it - their lives were completely changed.

I think if my child died I would prefer it if I were dead.

I like films where there's a relationship between two women. I always think that's lovely to watch on the screen.

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

I like books that are exciting and that make you think about things, as well. I like things that have a twist - like 'Atonement,' which I haven't read obviously, as I'm a bit young.

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.