James Nesbitt Quotes
As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.'
Quotes to Explore
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The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
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I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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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?
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A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
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The gun is not out of Irish politics.
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Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
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My wife's a loving, funny, Irish-spirited person, and I'm still surprised at some of the things she says. She makes me laugh every day.
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Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.
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I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I got an Irish passport the other day. I love it. It's the best thing in my pocket.
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'But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavour toward better understanding.'
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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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My sisters and I like a lot of different styles of music, but we're inspired by real artists like Beyonce and Adele.
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I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.
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His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like 'the blue-eyed Jewish-Irish Mohican scout who died in your arms at the roulette table at Monte Carlo.
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Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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There is a lot of Indian connect in 'Million Dollar Arm'. It is about two Indian boys, and we even shot quite a bit of the movie in India.
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But, no, I don't think there will be any kind of problem as far as setting up to be competitive, but you've got to get it right if you want to be the first one across the line.
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As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.'
