I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!
Audrey HepburnThe problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.
Roddy DoyleThe Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
Seamus HeaneyI grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie.
Jimmy FallonI feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.
Edward BurnsI'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.
Heather MatarazzoThe Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
Norman MailerWell, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again.
Andrea CorrI'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.
Alice Walker