Top 60 Saoirse Ronan Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Saoirse Ronan

2. “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.”

— Saoirse Ronan

3. “I don’t feel isolated on a film set. In a way you do because you don’t really mix with the outside world; you’re just sort of working non-stop for a few months, but you’ve got so many people around you.”

— Saoirse Ronan

4. “Once you move away from home, it’s never quite the same again. You expect everything to be just as you left it, and it never is. It’s almost the first step into adulthood, realizing you’ve got to make your own way.”

— Saoirse Ronan

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

— Saoirse Ronan

6. “I listen to everything. I love The Chemical Brothers.”

— Saoirse Ronan

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

— Saoirse Ronan

8. “For me, clothes are about individuality. When I wear things that are different and it works, it makes me feel good.”

— Saoirse Ronan

9. “We grew up with a camera in front of us.”

— Saoirse Ronan

10. “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

11. “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

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

— Saoirse Ronan

13. “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.”

— Saoirse Ronan

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

— Saoirse Ronan

15. “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

16. “I wouldn’t go down the route of having an assistant. I don’t want to be like that. I want to be normal.”

— Saoirse Ronan

17. “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

18. “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.”

— Saoirse Ronan

19. “I’ve basically grown up with Harry Potter, as so many kids my age have. It’s kind of a part of my life.”

— Saoirse Ronan

20. “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.”

— Saoirse Ronan

21. “I’m a huge Wes Anderson fan. I literally love every single film. He hasn’t made a bad film; I’ve seen every single one. They’ve all been brilliant, from ‘Bottle Rocket’ up to ‘Moonrise Kingdom,’ they’ve all been wonderful.”

— Saoirse Ronan

22. “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

23. “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

24. “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.”

— Saoirse Ronan

25. “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

26. “I’m all right, not as good as my mom is. Maybe because I don’t have kids.”

— Saoirse Ronan

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

— Saoirse Ronan

28. “I really want to go to college.”

— Saoirse Ronan

29. “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.”

— Saoirse Ronan

30. “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.”

— Saoirse Ronan

31. “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.”

— Saoirse Ronan

32. “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

33. “I like to get far away from myself when I’m acting.”

— Saoirse Ronan

34. “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.”

— Saoirse Ronan

35. “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

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

— Saoirse Ronan

37. “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.”

— Saoirse Ronan

38. “I’m Irish, so I’m messing all the time. Which means, I’m having a laugh. I’m always making jokes.”

— Saoirse Ronan

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

— Saoirse Ronan

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

— Saoirse Ronan

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

— Saoirse Ronan

42. “I don’t mind doing the whole red carpet thing when I have to when it comes to publicizing a movie. But besides that, I don’t like those kinds of things at all. Celebrity status is not really something that appeals to me.”

— Saoirse Ronan

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

— Saoirse Ronan

44. “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.”

— Saoirse Ronan

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

— Saoirse Ronan

46. “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.”

— Saoirse Ronan

47. “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

48. “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.”

— Saoirse Ronan

49. “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.”

— Saoirse Ronan

50. “I’ve found that I’d be the first one to cut lines.”

— Saoirse Ronan