Top 1200 Great Irish Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.

I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.

I make a mean Irish soda bread every Christmas and give it out to friends and family.

At one point in my life, I wanted to do a master's degree in Irish literature, but I ended up getting pregnant instead.

Own it. Just take it and say, 'Yes I will be great, I am going to be great.' Great doesn't mean being a movie star, great doesn't mean having millions of dollars. Great means being able to be confident, strong, and a solid human being that has dignity and integrity. That is great.

The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.

Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'

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

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

The Irish crowd and the humour, they really get it. Them riffing with 'The Room' makes the film watchable for me.

I started acting when I was really young. I came to the States and didn't know anyone, and I spoke with a weird Irish accent.

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

Either somebody has equal rights, or they don't. And certainly in the Irish constitution, marriage is genderless. There's no mention of a man and a woman.

I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?

My Irish mate told me, if you file down the edges of a 50 pence piece, you can use it as a 10p.

I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early imprinting and conditioning made me a life-long radical. My education was mostly scientific, majoring in electrical engineering and applied math. Those imprints made me a life-long rationalist. I have become increasingly skeptical about, or detached from, the assumption that radicalism and rationalism are the only correct perspectives with which to view life, but they remain my favorite perspectives.

The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.

For me, no one aspect of the Brexit debate displays so markedly the monomania of many Brexiteers as does the Irish question.

I am an Irish Catholic person. I've been a man and a woman. I speak Russian, sort of. And then I'm very diplomatic.

I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish.

A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.

Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.

I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go.

I grew up in a big, blended Irish Catholic family just outside of Los Angeles.

I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.

As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.'

I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner.

I think most Irish people are creative. Whether it's music, or dance, or... certainly storytelling is in the blood.

I love Ireland. I'll always be 100pc Irish. I get really excited when I go to Sligo; it's my home.

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.

Great passions may either bring great victories or great sorrows! In both cases, it is always a great privilege to have great passions!

I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show.

The Irish and Russian communities are huge in New York, so this is truly one of the only places where I can fight in front of all of my fans.

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced.

I suppose British people generally, probably have very stereotypical notions about the Irish that go back to Victorian times.

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

But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

For my last meal I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs.

... Hope is at the bottom of the Pandora's box of Irish troubles, and I believe proudly and firmly in the ultimate destinies of my country.

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.

Irish artists have a tradition of being very heavily engaged in what is happening in their own society. So it was important that they had a voice.

It was an incredible effort by the Irish down in Tallahassee. Jameis Winston was too tough in the second half; congrats to the Seminoles.

I went to Irish dance when I was four. I was playing the tin whistle when I was five. So I think certain things are bred into you.

I come from a big Irish family who force-fed me as a kid, so not eating was never an option.

But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice.

I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.

For my last meal, I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs.

Next to President of the United States, Ambassador to Ireland is surely one of the best jobs an Irish American can hold.

I'm not sure if a grinning Irish guy who is speechless for 45 seconds is going to make good TV.

My last name is originally Irish. I'm not exactly sure whereabouts it's from, but I've got family branches that were traced back there.

Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

For the record, Irish," he informed her tightly, just in case she got the wrong idea, "I kneel to no one.

I try to attack all races and creeds, except the Irish. Clearly they are closest to the angels and don't deserve abuse. But the others have it coming.

Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.

There's still, dare I say it, a cultural propaganda against the Irish, that we are, as women, 'feisty.' I hate that word.

The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters

I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie.

The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.