My very first professional job was with a theatre company in 1965 and the first job they gave me was literally shovelling sh*t. I was an assistant stage manager and they told me to clear out the prop store. I… — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
“The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.” — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
“To be in touch with wilderness is to have stepped past the proud cattle of the field and wandered far from the twinkles of… — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
I can be very stubborn. I'm very opinionated and if people cross me at work - if people who don't know about the job… — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
I hate the standard of stupid and selfish driving we have in this country. We are the worst I've come across. — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
Be a vegetarian. That was the best advice I ever took. It means I'm not involved in killing, that's the main thing. — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
I think to be a rich and successful person in Roman society would be pretty fabulous. They had all of the comforts we want… — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
“It is your task to walk back from the woods with an animal, not a pelt, not a corpse, but something alive. Curate that… — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
I tend to get starstruck with sports people. I was on a chat show with retired Scottish footballer Denis Law and I just lost… — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
I worked with Judi Dench in Cranford. She's not at all starry, she's very easy and funny to be around, but I had such… — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
I don't live in London - I'm based in Norfolk and have a place in Scotland. — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
If someone opens a glorious Scotch or a bottle of wine, it's no more than a whimsy, but after nearly 40 years I'm used… — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
“The journey simultaneously holds the contraries of solitary longing and relatedness to community, as Shaw tells us: “It’s an extraordinary, indigenous idea that to… — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
“Holy isn’t always a church or open meadow. It can be a zone of profound change, where sexuality, the mythic realms, dreams, and the… — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
