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"There's something about the Irish that is remarkable."
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"In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame."
"It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody."
"My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?"
"Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure."
"Finally, Colin Farrell showed up on my doorstep, only he wasn't Colin Farrell - he was just this Irish kid who had read the script and wanted to do it."
"I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish."
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"There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true."
"To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have."
"The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor."
"I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them."
"Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th."
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