Irish Quotes

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish.

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.

I think the world's a little smaller these days. With the Internet and the availability of people, the pool of English speaking actors - not just American actors, but Brits, Australians, New Zealanders, Irish. We're all up for grabs.

I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.

Yes, I am an Irish lass through and through.

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

For a man to come right out and say he does not believe in the Old Testament, I think many Catholics across the nation as well as the world are offended by Bill O'Reilly claiming he's an Irish Catholic.

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.

Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know.

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'.

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.

I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint.

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

Well, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again.

In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.

We play our Irish songs a bit more loosely.

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.

I have the soul of a singer and do splendidly in the shower but the world will never hear it. Basically, I'm the only Irish person who can't carry a tune.

The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.

I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.

I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA.

My soul is still Irish.

My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.

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

I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.

We have, therefore, directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in County Donegal adjacent to Derry and at other points along the Border where they may be necessary.

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

I'm from durable stock. I'm made to work. I'm Irish.

The fact is, I've always felt more British than Irish. Maybe it was the way I was brought up, I don't know, but I have always felt more of a connection with the U.K. than with Ireland.

I have three older brothers. I'm Irish. I'm feisty.

I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we like telling stories, which makes a lot of us lean towards being writers or actors or directors.

Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus.

I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.

I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.

Yelling Irish, you can sound like an angry Leprechaun.

I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.

Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign.

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

Finally, Colin Farrell showed up on my doorstep, only he wasn't Colin Farrell - he was just this Irish kid who had read the script and wanted to do it.

You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.