Quotes of: Irish-catholic Keyword

In 'The Hobbit,' there were British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand actors, and Peter Jackson was adamant that we would all sound like we were from Britain somewhere.

Aidan Turner

To make a career as an Irish actor, generally it's the case that you move to London. When you make that move, you do tend to stand out.

Aidan Turner

I grew up in the middle of a block where there was an Irish grocery store on one corner, an Italian bar on another corner and the Nazi Party was on the third corner.

Andrew Young

A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.

William Nicholson

I grew up in a small, strictly-Catholic fishing village on the coast of Wales. The people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood - people stick together more.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.

Michael Caine

I will forever stick up for Catholics and Christians in general. With a small number of very horrible exceptions, they do play by the rules.

Penn Jillette

I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What's it all about?

Liam Neeson

I don't think I look like the pope's favorite Catholic - at least not under close scrutiny.

Mary Karr

I'm a spiritual person. I'm not very religious. I was raised Catholic, but I am influenced a lot by Buddhism and Hinduism.

Rodrigo Santoro

Raised Roman Catholic up until 11 or 12, didn't stick. Went out into the world and did my own thing.

Stephen Baldwin

I've also committed my time and resources to many local organizations like Christmas in April, Catholic Community Services, and Hudson County Meals on Wheels.

Vincent Frank

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

Antony Gormley

Thankfully, I was able to go to Marquette University and get my education, a Catholic education, so I could please my family, because I think they wanted me to be a priest.

Danny Pudi

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.

Francois Gautier

As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.

Joe Baca

The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.

Robert Duvall

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

Alison Bechdel

The fact that President-elect Kennedy would be the first Catholic president did not sit well with many Americans. There was a fear that, as president, Kennedy's decisions would be based on his religion and dictated by the pope.

Clint Hill

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

Kingsley Amis

Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.

Stephen Greenblatt