Quotes About Family

I have three older brothers. I'm Irish. I'm feisty.

My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn.

I'm actually more German than Scottish. I'm half-Japanese, 25 percent German, 12 percent Scottish, and 12 percent Irish.

All my people are from Ireland. I was born in Manchester, but I am Irish.

There might well have been an Irish great-great-grandfather of mine back then in the 1800s.

My parents are huge influences on me. My mother was an English teacher. My father played professional rugby and coached rugby for the Irish rugby team.

We used to speak Irish - Gaelic Irish - around the dinner table, but over the years, we lost that.

I am a proud Englishman, having been born and raised in London. However, I am just as proud of my family's Irish heritage and my affinity and connection with the country.

My lineage is partially Irish.

My mom's family was 100 percent Irish, in the American way of being Irish, and then my dad was half Irish.

I'm just an old Irish guy who believes if you have children, you need to be there to raise them.

I come from a blue-collar, Irish Catholic, pro-Kennedy, pro-union family of Democrats.

I'm from an Irish Catholic family.

I grew up in a big, blended Irish Catholic family just outside of Los Angeles.

I was a huge fan of J. Courtney Sullivan's novel 'Maine,' and like that novel, 'Saint' is a family saga set in Boston. Irish Catholic family secrets - is there anything better?

Having been raised very disciplined, I had to iron for my mom every Friday afternoon after school.

This is going to sound weird, but when I was a little kid, the Iron Sheik was really big in our house.

I remember I hadn't bought anything for my Mum for Christmas and I actually won an iron, so I was excited that I could take that home for her.

I have never considered myself English Both my husband and my son say I don't understand English humour, and they don't always understand what I think is funny, or when I'm being ironic.

I don't live too far from my mum so I can go round for home-cooked meals and get my ironing done.

I am grateful for the lessons I learned from my parents' sacrifices. They often had trouble making ends meet, so we moved for them to find work. I remember my mom would sometimes take on second jobs, like ironing, just so we could buy groceries.

My dad moved to London in his early 20s and didn't really go back. So the irony is I've spent lots and lots of time in Ireland, but not with my dad. I've shot films in Belfast, where he's from. And I've shot in Dun Laoghaire. Which is great. And I've shot in Dublin.

I can't deny the impact of, obviously, becoming a father and having my son come into this world, and even becoming a husband. The irony is that, when people think that in certain ways it softens you, in many ways, I'm more defensive and more on guard and more frightened and more angry at everything in this world now that I have them to worry about.