Irishman Quotes

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both.

Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?

I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that.

But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.

Now here I am playing a passionate young Irishman who would die for what he believes in.

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.

As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman.