Irish Quotes
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Because I'm Irish, I've always done an accent. Not doing an accent is off-putting because I sound like me. I love doing an accent. Doing the accent from West Virginia was great, and we had to get specific with it.
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The Scots (originally Irish, but by now Scotch) were at this time inhabiting Ireland, having driven the Irish (Picts) out of Scotland; while the Picts (originally Scots) were now Irish (living in brackets) and vice versa. It is essential to keep these distinctions clearly in mind (and verce visa).
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I think most Irish people are creative. Whether it's music, or dance, or... certainly storytelling is in the blood.
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I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.
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The revelations of the Cloyne report have brought the government, Irish Catholics, and the Vatican to an unprecedented juncture.
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There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt me! Ronan! Kilty! Tomas! And now me! What are the Irish among men? Are we lepers? Are we a blight? Will there ever be an end to our tears?
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The Irish fought the Italians until they started marrying them. And then they both fought the Jews until they started marrying them.
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We would probably claim Kafka as an Irish writer. His tone of voice is certainly quite Irish: that sense of melancholy, that sense of strangeness and of being a stranger in the world. I think that we empathise with that very much indeed.
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I like Guinness, and that will make anyone Irish. That and soda bread, and I'm good to go.
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The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.
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The Danes and the Irish have a great simpatico, that's for sure.
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I'm from a small Irish family of 10, so there always was music in the house. Growing up, my older sisters had things like 'South Pacific' and opera on.
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An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.
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The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.
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I look Italian, but I act Irish.
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I am descended from Irish immigrants. A century ago, the Irish knew well how American society-and law enforcement-viewed them: as drunks, ruffians, and criminals. Law enforcement’s biased view of the Irish lives on in the nickname we still use for the vehicles we use to transport groups of prisoners. It is, after all, the 'paddy wagon.'
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The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.
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The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.
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Well I think that's probably one of a few, where I grew up in the City of New York, it's got a lot of energy, my parents are Irish-American so there was a bit of yelling going on in my house but it seemed normal.
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I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.
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My uncle was a photographer for 'The Irish Times.'
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I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.
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I said that when I looked at photographs of the firefighters who went into the Twin Towers, their faces looked to me like Irish faces. I hadn't yet learnt how careful outsiders have to be when talking about race in America, and I'd put my foot in it. Someone stood up and said aggressively, 'What do you mean by Irish faces?'
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He was an Irish patriot true and fearless.
