Top 1200 Irish Accent Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Because I had an accent, people had this impression that I was dumb.
As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.
My mom is Irish. She is a poet and a humanitarian who believed in ensuring that people around her had a better life.
Vests are flair for men. It's one of the few ways men can accent themselves in a formal yet fun fashion.
I was always told at school I was posh, then I came to London, and here I'm told I have a country accent.
I love Britain. I'm an Irish citizen, but I was born in Canada, and I'm a British comedian, really. My entire career has been over here.
Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do.
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.
The idea of New Zealanders sounding like Americans is not it. You got to rhyme in your language, your accent.
I was a complete mod and had to wear mod clothes and have a Beatle haircut, and I tried to talk in a Liverpool accent.
I vowed to never use my American accent, and I didn't. Even going to get the paper in the morning to buying milk down at the shop, getting a cab, wherever.
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.
I remember going to Birmingham City matches as a kid and there were these other kids in Small Heath who had their own odd, partly Scouse accent.
I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.
I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four years.
For a lot of people, and I'm one of them, where you are and who you're spending your time with greatly impacts your accent.
It's part of my job. You can't play Veronica Guerin sounding like this. It just wouldn't wash. But what I find fascinating about doing an accent - unless it's a farce - is that it's not slapped on.
I reckoned my accent and class would count against me; I didn't see actresses as being working-class.
Hats are the epitome of Englishness, and a royal wedding is the penultimate moment for a hat designer. I'm Irish, but I am a royalist and I believe in fantasy.
If I'm playing an Indian in a Hollywood film, I won't do it in any funny Indian accent.
It's so rare that I get to do something in my own accent in my own hometown.
There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.
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.
Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.
I'm from an Irish family and, even though I grew up in 80s London, I spent a lot of my childhood in southwest Ireland.
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 don't want to lose my accent, I just want it to become smaller.
I like to hear BBC Manchester about the news and to learn English and the Manchester accent.
It's hard to learn an American accent. Some of the Rs at the ends of words are incredibly hard.
I come from Chicago and am a child of Irish Catholic parents who were able to wield guilt like a Ginsu knife.
It's part of my challenge as an actor, not only speaking English but speaking Spanish with a Mexican accent.
My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England it was very British.
When I was a child I did engage in an arduous struggle to pass: learning English, getting rid of my accent, becoming conversant with the culture in all its large and small aspects.
The accent today is on results, not on how well you work. You can't build a skyscraper in a day, but you can build a shack.
In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.
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.
I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.
I feel British but my dad still has a filthy Scottish accent so I'm hearing that a lot... but the Davis Cup did help my exposure and my experience, so it was great for me.
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.
The first music that came to my ear was gospel... I used to sing 'Amazing Grace' with a very strong southern accent and a vibrato already at five years old.
Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raised... and there's probably some Irish in your blood lines.
the Irish ... are full of the fear of the Lord and the joy of living, and they don't know how to combine the two, but they'll sure have a good time trying.
London's been really good to me - England as a whole - but the Scots and the Irish especially are very appreciative because that's kind of where it all came from.
As a working-class boy, golf was never really on my radar, and when I was growing up, Irish football was my sporting passion.
The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters
It was an incredible effort by the Irish down in Tallahassee. Jameis Winston was too tough in the second half; congrats to the Seminoles.
My Hindi was not very good, but I guess people liked my accent and gave me Hindi roles.
My mother has only just got over the fact that I will never play Shrek's sister - because of the Scottish accent, she thought I'd be perfect.
I've got the fighting Irish, and Puerto Ricans are some of the best fighters in the world. I'm proud of who I am, but it doesn't define me as a person.
I could never get cast with an Indian accent. I was not getting cast.
Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.
I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than the average male rapper.
Why is it when a white actor or even a black actor does a British accent, it's considered art?
Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.
He [Bill Clinton] likes to hearken back to his kind of Irish roots, so I think he'd love to be called First Laddy.
President Obama told the Irish people that America will always stand by them, to which Israel laughed.
I wanna open a Jamaican/Irish/Spanish small plate breakfast restaurant and call it Tapas the Morning to Ja.
The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.
I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests. I'm the new Barry Fitzgerald, except with a Mexican accent.
In bed watching Family Guy. Love this show.! So hilarious! Stewie is my favorite :) love his accent.
