Irish Actor Quotes

Peter O'Toole

Colin Farrell

Michael Gambon

Sam Neill

Barry Fitzgerald

Dion Boucicault

Jack Gleeson

The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.

Oh Paddy dear, and did you hear
The news that's going round?
The shamrock is forbid by law
To grow on Irish ground.

Dion Boucicault

Amo, amas,
I love a lass,
As a cedar tall and slender;
Sweet cowslip's grace Is her nominative case,
And she's of the feminine gender!

As she lay, on that day,
In the bay of Biscay, O!

I hear that the no-smoking crowd are now operating at the National. Surely that sort of mentality doesn't belong in a theatre, it isn't a place where you impose rules on people, it's a dirty radical place where an actor can work with a fag in his hand.

Of all the characters I've played, I think I have more in common with that guy than with Reilly: Ace of Spies, referring to Carl Fitzgerald in Death in Brunswick.

It's nice to have a nun around. Gives the place a bit of glamour.

Arthur Mathews (writer)

We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, 'Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday'?

Micheál Mac Liammóir

Something rather frightening takes place, namely a self-fulfilling fame that's come up only in the past decade or so, that does not need to base itself in adaptive skill, or any skill for that matter. All it needs is the fuel of more celebrity, and thus more prestige, and thus more celebrity, and so on ad infinitum.

A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors.

Barry Fitzgerald

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.

Charles Macklin

When I am at my work each day
In the fields so fresh and green
I often think of riches and the way things might have been
But believe me when I tell you when I get home each day
I'm as happy as a sandboy with my wee cup of tay

Patrick McCabe (novelist)

Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival.