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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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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“...to be Irish is to know the world will break your heart before you are thirty.”
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But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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 like Guinness, and that will make anyone Irish. That and soda bread, and I'm good to go.
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Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'.
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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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I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were not mine. I never felt them. I liked how open in most ways Catalan nationalism was, compared to Irish nationalism. I disliked the violence and cruelty in Ireland.
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I grew up in a big, blended Irish Catholic family just outside of Los Angeles.
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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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My uncle was a photographer for 'The Irish Times.'
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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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He was an Irish patriot true and fearless.
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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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I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die.
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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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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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The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.
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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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I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.
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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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I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the '70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don't want to sing in front of anybody.
