Sam Neill (Nigel John Dermot Neill) Quotes

I got an Irish passport the other day. I love it. It's the best thing in my pocket.

Sam Neill

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• The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family you could ever live next to in L.A.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Live
  • Family
  • Worst

• When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to just be TV. There were three channels that were competing for the whole family and you couldn't take your business elsewhere.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • America
  • Dad
  • Childhood

• It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?

  

  Kate Bush
  • American
  • Think
  • English

• The gun is not out of Irish politics.

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Politics
  • Gun
  • Irish

• I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.

  

  Lance Ito
  • Time
  • Media
  • Step

• Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.

  

  Oliver St. John
  • People
  • Politics
  • Irish

• The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Want
  • Hand
  • Legal

• Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Poetry
  • End
  • Irish

• I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as wide as in some other countries.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Up
  • Country
  • Imagination

• May I join you in the doghouse, Rover?I wish to retire till the party's over.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • May
  • Party
  • Wish

• I should make it clear that we do not accept that Britain has a special responsibility to meet the costs of land purchase in Zimbabwe. We are a new government from diverse backgrounds without links to former colonial interests. My own origins are Irish and, as you know, we were colonised, not colonisers.

  

  Clare Short
  • Responsibility
  • Irish

• The last dog I had was an Irish wolfhound - now that is a dog. Rather spoils a person for a lesser canine, that is, anything under a hundredweight.

  

  Laurie R. King
  • Dog
  • Irish

• I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.

  

  Anne Enright
  • People
  • Work
  • Irish

• There's a basic law, Klein's second, or third, or fourth law of politics in the TV age, which is warm always beats cold, with the exception of Richard Nixon. The nicer guy usually wins.

  

  Joe Klein
  • Age
  • Guy
  • Law

• I went into the world confident my tea training would open many doors. And I did particularly well with the Irish and fellow Nova Scotians over 60. But this only got me so far. It took a long time to cultivate the tricks of easy social interaction.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Rock
  • Star
  • Irish

• I think that's why you see so many Americans in Dublin look so sad: they are looking for the door through which they can begin to understand this place. I tell them, 'Go to the races.' I think it's the best place to start understanding the Irish.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Why
  • Understanding
  • Door

• I've been fortunate in my career to have the opportunity to pick and choose the parts I play. I've also been lucky to always be involved with quality actors, quality directors, quality writers.

  

  Powers Boothe
  • Career
  • Opportunity
  • Quality

• The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is made responsible for teaching these laws to the world.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • World
  • God
  • Church

• By the time I wrote my memoir, 'Men We Reaped,' I had been running from writing it for a long time. When the events in the book were happening, I knew I'd probably write about them one day. I didn't want to. I'd studied fiction, and I was committed to establishing myself as a fiction writer first.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• Follow your instincts. Do the kind of writing you love to do and do best. 'Stiff' was an oddball book - I mean, a funny book about cadavers? - and I worried that it would be too unconventional. In the end, that's what has made it a success, I think.

  

  Mary Roach
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Success

• I got an Irish passport the other day. I love it. It's the best thing in my pocket.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Irish