"Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift."
"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English."
Winston Churchill on Saintpatricksday"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."
William Butler Yeats on Saintpatricksday"Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it."
Pope John Paul II on Saintpatricksday"If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks."
Brendan Behan on Saintpatricksday"Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me."
Colin Farrell on Saintpatricksday"I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20."
"For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable."
"Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change."
"It's an ongoing joy being a dad."
"I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. I'm acting. It's always, 'When I say you'll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!?' Then, 'Yeah, Dad.'"