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Quotes by Irish Authors
"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity."
"Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest."
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
"Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack."
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
"It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people."
"Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them."
"The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it."
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
"One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing."
"Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls."
"Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue."
"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
"The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills."
"Let my country die for me."
"I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards."
"You find my words dark. Darkness is in our souls, do you not think?"
"Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull."
"I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center."
"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance."
"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
"If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example."
"A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught."
"I used to love watching him as a player, so it is a joy to play alongside him. I might take the mickey out of him, but deep down I have so much admiration for him."
"The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method."
"It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book."
"Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference."
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