Irish Background Quotes

I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background.

I'll also tell you that to no less extent my mom, who was the daughter of Irish immigrants.

I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at home. I've always had a keen eye for pretension.

Growing up, I was your classic Catholic Irish kid. I went to mass every Sunday. Then in secondary school I went to boarding school, and there was mass seven days a week before breakfast - it may have put me off!

I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.

I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.

I'm from Salford, and I don't have any immediate Irish connection.

My father was from Belfast; my mother was from Crossmolina. I grew up in Dublin.

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

The secret of my success is my mother, who was from Dublin. All my relations are in Dublin or in the west, or as I found out, we went to Rostrevor in Northern Ireland to film and I got out, while they changed cars around, and this man said to me: "You know you have cousins in this town? And they're coming down to see you..." And so they did. I'm sorry we didn't go to a lot more places, so that I could find a lot more cousins. So, that was good. It's entirely because my father was also brought up in Dublin. So, that's my link.