Quotes About Author

I'm saying 9/11 was to get us into Iraq and get us into Afghanistan.

I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq.

I think I may try and write something about my pretty extraordinary experience with the 101st in Iraq.

I always wrote - not about war, necessarily, but I always wrote stories. I tried to write while I was in Iraq. It's not really - I didn't do a very good job, and not about war.

Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.

In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively recoiled.

I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which is where my family is from - in Ireland.

I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.

It's not a hard sell to be asked to do something in Ireland.

I love playing in Ireland and I've had great support here, like I get everywhere.

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.

It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.

I'm a big fan of the Irish accent. After a couple of drinks, I start to get a bit of an Irish lilt, too.

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

Gaelic football is a very Irish sport, which I played.

One of my first interviews was Robert Downey Jr. for 'Iron Man.'

I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.

The Arabic music I listen to is extremely edgy. Ironic, sarcastic, sensual, erotic.

This is what the establishment is scared of: Of joy, the sense of humour, of irony.

Neymar is essential, but not irreplaceable.

But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

It is to be regretted when internal considerations determine a counterproductive and irresponsible foreign policy.

I'm completely irresponsible, I'm afraid. I'm ignorant about money as a commodity - I have never really understood it.