Top 1200 Irish Accent Quotes & Sayings - Page 15
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
When I arrived in L.A., I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult, so I had six months working with a dialect coach, and it's become a habit.
For the record, Irish," he informed her tightly, just in case she got the wrong idea, "I kneel to no one.
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.
The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family you could ever live next to in L.A.
I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent.
Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'
For me, no one aspect of the Brexit debate displays so markedly the monomania of many Brexiteers as does the Irish question.
It's like a puzzle, putting together your individual accent and what you grew up with or what you heard. It must be insane to be a dialect coach, to balance all that out.
Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys
One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.
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.
I've never worked in my natural accent, having studied so hard to get rid of it when I moved to England as a child where I was bullied at school for 'talking funny.'
The last thing we want to see, given the success of the peace process, is the return of installations along the Irish border.
I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.
I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.
Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys.
The best story about Berta is my audition. I think they wanted her to be the ethnic character. They asked me to come with an Eastern European accent.
U2 and Sinead O'Connor - I haven't a clue why we're compared to them. Apart from us all being Irish, we've nothing in common.
Next to President of the United States, Ambassador to Ireland is surely one of the best jobs an Irish American can hold.
The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.
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.
Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced.
At one point in my life, I wanted to do a master's degree in Irish literature, but I ended up getting pregnant instead.
Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.
I had people who said I was a brilliant producer but I wouldn't get on the news because I was too northern. But there was no way I was changing my accent - it is the key to my identity.
My Irish mate told me, if you file down the edges of a 50 pence piece, you can use it as a 10p.
... 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.
I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show.
I suppose British people generally, probably have very stereotypical notions about the Irish that go back to Victorian times.
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.
But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.
I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.
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.
The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.
I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?
I have been in rooms with people arguing over a character that's not really fleshed out: that, just because the surname is Latino, that automatically means you have an accent.
I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by wearing a wig and laughing in a foreign accent, and I escaped.
If all you have to criticise me on is my age or my accent, then you really can't defeat me on the issues.
I used to think my accent was blocking me, and I hated it. Then I went to America, and every time someone said, 'What? Can you say that again?' I started liking it.
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.
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.
The Irish crowd and the humour, they really get it. Them riffing with 'The Room' makes the film watchable for me.
Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.
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.
When you get to speak Irish, you become more at one with yourself, you kind of have a spark when you use it, and I think it's a great dialect.
God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.
Alec's Spanish is getting better and better. His accent is very good.
I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie.
Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.
Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.
I’m avampire. I havesecret powers ,” he said with a full-on fake Transylvanian accent, which he dropped to say, “Actually, your mom let me in.
A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.
As soon as you start speaking in a different language or with a different accent, it changes you as a person.
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 understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.
