Irish upbringing Quotes

I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

Growing up in Ireland, there are a lot of aspects of God that hang in the air. And my music reflects that.

I'll tell you what you can expect from an Irishman named Wellington whose father was a bookmaker. You can expect that anything he says or writes may be repeated aloud in your own home in front of your children. You can believe he was taught to love and respect all mankind, but to fear no man.

I'm not a comic person at all. It never reached me in the north of Ireland, in the '60s and '70s growing up. We used to get stupid comics like 'The Topper' and 'The Beezer,' things like that.

I was always attracted to the type of cinema hero as an adolescent growing up in Ireland. Robert Mitchum springs to mind. Later on, it was Steve McQueen to a certain extent and Charles Bronson. They're these types of grizzled characters who had one foot on the side of law and order and the other foot in the bad guy's camp.

I'm pleased to say I grew up in a happy family in Dublin. I feel we're very close.

My dad's Irish, so I was visiting Ireland a lot as a kid, so it's not totally foreign to me.

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.