Top 1200 Irish Accent Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on November 13, 2024.
I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.
In maybe 1963, we had 'Collier's Encyclopedia,' and they sent us their yearly LP. I heard the Beatles talking on there. That was the first time I tried altering my voice, doing a Liverpudlian accent.
I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.
The first job where I actually made money was on 'Guiding Light,' the soap opera. And I played a maid. My name was Ginger, and I had a Brooklyn accent - a really bad one, if I remember correctly.
Us Irish are kind of like that: we're hard grafters. We like to prove everybody wrong.
My family settled in Cairo in 1980. I was nine. I missed Libya terribly, but I also took to Cairo. I perfected the accent. People assumed I was Egyptian.
I come from a blue-collar, Irish Catholic, pro-Kennedy, pro-union family of Democrats.
I'm hugely proud of being Irish. And I don't even know what that means. I just know that it's true.
The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.
I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.
I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families.
I'm very lucky, because it's a combination of the German, the Hebrew, the Swiss, the French, and that accent helped because as soon as people heard it they knew it was me.
My only counsel to Ireland is that in order to become deeply Irish, she must become European.
I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me
I'm Irish in the mythic, romantic sense, but in the living sense, I'm a Londoner.
I was actually a single man until I was 41. Rather late. Irish marry late.
I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.
There are a few Irish writers who have a very strong influence on me, especially on the 'Take Me to Church' EP.
I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy.
I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.
For me, being Catholic was who I was and who I am, just like I'm Irish and Slovak. It's just so ingrained in us.
I spent my entire Irish Catholic youth in a constant state of guilt over imaginary sins. I learned that nothing is a sin as long as you don't take pleasure from it.
Whenever I get a chance to work in a different language, or in a different accent, or anything like that, I'm game. I think it's a great challenge and something to be done.
For me and accent work, I think once you've figured out where that energy is, where the sound is in your throat or your mouth, it's a whole lot easier to do.
I had this awesome tennis teacher when I was 12 who was Icelandic. He looked like a Viking: long hair, and he was built like a rock and spoke with this accent.
I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider's perspective.
I have differences of opinion within my own family, an Irish Catholic family. So, I do respect those that disagree.
I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.
My father named me Kelli because 'Kelli O'Hara' just sounded so Irish.
English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish football gains so much from being in Europe. Clubs and fans all benefit from European action, laws and funding.
I think it's an Irish thing. We don't really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal with it. The truth is the truth.
Roxy Music' and 'For Your Pleasure,' those exercises in learning and unlearning of accent and manners, are Pop's equivalent of 'The Talented Mr Ripley.' The clothes , the bearing and the voice are faked, but not yet perfectly.
As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.
He sucked his lips in an attempt not to laugh. "Aren't you Spanish?" She raised one arm in a salute. "Viva la Queen Isabella!" "I see. Then why are you speaking with a French accent?
FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.
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.
The school I went to was so Gaelic that you learned how to play the tin whistle and how to Irish-dance in class.
The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.
My mom is Filipino and my dad is half Russian and half Irish.
A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
I made my final collection in college in London using Irish handwoven wool. That is how I discovered Ireland first; I just fell in love with it, really.
I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats, who captured a lot of that very beautifully.
But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible
America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I spoke English with an English accent. It was assumed that it would go on in that way.
My dad knows every single accent from being an old Yiddish grandpa to being Indian or Jamaican. It was very cool to grow up with that.
Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I'd been in America and not been seen as some sort of eccentric character with a cute accent.
I feel respect is in your hands as an actor when portraying a character, particularly when it's from the Indian subcontinent. I do make a conscious effort to do so and often talk to the directors especially about the heavy accent when it's not needed.
There might well have been an Irish great-great-grandfather of mine back then in the 1800s.
I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.
I've always been fond of my heritage, particularly my Irish heritage. But I'm also from all over the world.
I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen.
I like Irish pubs, except for all the loud music and drinking, and people acting like idiots.
It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.
I think people tend to underestimate you when you have a Northern accent, for instance if you have to talk to the CEO of an international company. But then when I'm talking to someone in a factory, it's just like being with my mum's mates.
Why do we like being Irish? Partly because
It gives us a hold on the sentimental English
As members of a world that never was,
Baptized with fairy water
Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.
Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.
Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester.
English is English, no matter what accent you speak it in.
The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.