Quotes tagged ‘irish’

“Frankie, you should have been there! Rudy shoved it so far up their Irish cunts you would have...what? Who died?”

— David Simon, Vincent Martino / Frankie Martino, James Franco, imdb.com

“I grew up in a neighborhood and it was mostly Irish and Italian and Polish. So everybody went to mass. I was in a Jewish family, but we never had any religious upbringing. The closest I got to Jewish was, you know, they clipped the tip. That was it. I had no say about that at all.”

— Billy Joel, amazon.com

“Brad Pitt don’t smoke shit hash. It’s like [the saying], 'Irish don’t drink shit Guinness.' Brad Pitt don’t smoke shit hash.”

— Chris Cornell, amazon.com

“I'm Irish. I think about death all the time. Back in the days when I thought of myself as a serious academic writer, I used to think that the only real theme was a fear of death, and that all the other themes were just that same fear, translated into fear of closeness, fear of loneliness, fear of di…”

— Jack Nicholson, rogerebert.com

“[narrating] You know, we always called each other good fellas. Like you said to, uh, somebody, 'You're gonna like this guy. He's all right. He's a good fella. He's one of us.' You understand? We were good fellas. Wiseguys. But Jimmy and I could never be made because we had Irish blood. It didn't eve…”

— Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese, Henry Hill, Ray Liotta, imdb.com

“She would have been mad if she'd known there was a priest among her ancestors.”

— George Peppard, independent.ie

“How many potatoes does it take to kill an Irish man? None.”

— PoufPoal, reddit.com

“I resent the idea that the Irish are all violent drunks. We’re perfectly capable of violence when sober, thank you very much.”

— deepthaw, reddit.com

“An Irish man frees a genie and happy to be released from his confinement, the genie grants him 3 wishes. The Irishman thinks about it, and says "I want me a pint of Guinness that is never empty." So poof a pint appears, filled to the rim with the rich brown drink. The man drinks it down, and when he…”

— hoosyourdaddyo, reddit.com

“It is St. Patrick's Day….It is the closest that the Irish will ever get to Christmas.”

— Charlie Grandy, Daniel Chun, Michael Scott, Steve Carell, amazon.com

“In a study, scientists report that drinking beer can be good for the liver. I’m sorry, did I say ‘scientists’? I meant Irish people.”

— Tina Fey, books.google.com