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

- Saoirse Ronan

My name means freedom in Irish.

- Saoirse Ronan

Acting is one of these things that I can't really describe - it's just like, why do you love your mum and dad? You know, you just do.

- Saoirse Ronan

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

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 sou…

- Saoirse Ronan

I think that when you're an actress, you have to think about what kind of a role model you're going to be. I hope that I'm a good role model for youn…

- Saoirse Ronan

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 wh…

- Saoirse Ronan

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

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

- Saoirse Ronan