Quotes About Ireland

For me, people in Ireland who became actors would have to go through the Billy Barry's in Dublin.

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.

There are many things we can do with Scotland and, indeed, with others which would be hugely beneficial to both Scotland and to Ireland, so I'm absolutely up for all of that.

I had a very peripatetic childhood, so I bounced around. Lived in Ethiopia until I was, like, three or four and then lived between Ireland and London.

Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body.

In Ireland, I don't get asked out much. English boys are a lot more flirty.

We've seen a lot of dirty politics 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.

Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies.

You can listen to carpenters talk for hours in Ireland. The people have a relationship to words that I don't think you will run into anyplace in the world.

What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'

I can make my living out of Ireland, but the reason I came to London was that I felt I'd gone as far as I could go in Ireland.

Throughout Ireland, there's a brilliant community of filmmakers and actors, and I guess there was always a lure to do some work in the place where I come from.

Acting is something you didn't do in Ireland.

I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

Hollywood is probably the most active centre of film-making in the world, but it's also a very difficult place in which to find your voice... It was also a far more civilised industry in Ireland.

Ireland's place north and south is in Europe and leading change in Europe.

St. Patrick, bringing the religion to Ireland, this is what we should celebrate.

People who think I have insulted Ireland or Limerick or my family have not read the book!

I hated school in Ireland.

I've got a huge family back in Ireland, and I've made loads of movies in Ireland.

I've often said it: that it is seen to be a place of energy, of excitement, of enthusiasm. That there's something about Ireland.

Ireland, once you live there, you're seduced by it.