Quotes About Nationality

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

Acting is something you didn't do in Ireland.

As you can hear, I am English - I am from England - and it was really good playing for Ireland.

If I didn't want to be playing for Ireland, I wouldn't be here.

I will support Ireland at rugby, but when England and Ireland are playing, I sit on the fence.

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

The fact is, I've always felt more British than Irish. Maybe it was the way I was brought up, I don't know, but I have always felt more of a connection with the U.K. than with Ireland.

Irish people never think we're Irish. Americans think we're European or French.

I am an Irish person. I'm an Irishman, but I'm also an Ulsterman.

Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.

Yes, I am an Irish lass through and through.

My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish.

I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'm both.

I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.

I'm proud to be Irish.

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.

I'm Irish; I grew up in Ireland, and it's impossible to separate my background from who I am as a filmmaker.

It's very difficult to break in Europe unless you break in England, and it's very difficult to break in England if you're Irish.

U2 and Sinead O'Connor - I haven't a clue why we're compared to them. Apart from us all being Irish, we've nothing in common.

I don't think Ireland has really embraced me, but it is not really for me to say. Obviously, people shouldn't embrace me just because I'm Irish, but it is where I'm from. I'm extremely proud to be Irish.

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.

I am immensely proud of my Irish roots.