Tara Fitzgerald Quotes

Tara Fitzgerald

Profession : Actress

Birth : September 18, 1967

In the end, bad things happening can teach you good things.

Tara Fitzgerald

I find art in simple things and arranging objects gives me enormous pleasure.

Tara Fitzgerald

I've always felt socially awkward and you can cover it up with a veneer to some degree and the formality of a lot of social events hides your awkwardness.

Tara Fitzgerald

Some years ago, I was introduced to Nicole Kidman and I curtseyed! I'm sure she doesn't remember but she looked a bit startled. You can't do anything about it once it's done but it's hard to recover from that.

Tara Fitzgerald

Each time you get a job you really want, there's a feeling of accomplishment, you feel like you're in stride with yourself, where everything seems to line up, the stars or whatever they are. That great, great feeling of accomplishment.

Tara Fitzgerald

Some people have a natural aptitude for investing, but I don't think I do.

Tara Fitzgerald

Mum was a photographer and didn't have much money, and I was always conscious of the fact. We didn't go on holidays very much, I inherited my clothes and I felt a lot of shame about not having money.

Tara Fitzgerald

When I first started working I was lucky enough to shoot a number of films abroad so I travelled quite extensively.

Tara Fitzgerald

I would say I tip over-easily, which is the inner waitress in me. I had to serve tables myself and I know that if the food is not good it's not the waiter's fault so I'll still tip. And if service is already included in the bill I might tip on top, which I know is not necessary.

Tara Fitzgerald

Playing Ophelia was a launch-pad to the rest of my career - it is one of the great roles for a young actress.

Tara Fitzgerald

I did quite a lot of reading about analysis and psychotherapy to prepare for the role. There are differing views on why Ophelia might have gone mad, or whether she actually chose to go mad. I elected the choice to go mad.

Tara Fitzgerald

I love holidays. Even the worst experience is worth having.

Tara Fitzgerald

I stayed in a dreadful hotel on a school trip to Paris when I was 14 that had mushrooms growing out of the woodwork, filthy beds with stains all over the sheets, and walls so thin you could hear everything going on in the next room.

Tara Fitzgerald

I went to Deia in Majorca when I was a student and it didn't stop raining. It went on and on to the point where bits of land were subsiding and a hotel close to us actually fell off the side of the cliff.

Tara Fitzgerald

In my fantasy I travel really light, but in reality I don't.

Tara Fitzgerald

I had such a big crush on Jeremy Irons when I was growing up.

Tara Fitzgerald

I read 'Midsummer Night's Dream' when I was very young - about nine. I didn't understand it all particularly, but I loved it.

Tara Fitzgerald

Theatre and television are two totally different disciplines.

Tara Fitzgerald

I've secretly harboured a desire to direct for a quite a long time. It's so much more challenging. As an actor you might be involved in a number of levels but as director you've got to oversee everything.

Tara Fitzgerald

My feeling is there is always that possibility for humour in tragedy. In life they go together.

Tara Fitzgerald