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Ireland is such an amazing country, and I have this little dream in the back of my head that someday I'll end up living there. When I've established myself in America and I don't need to live near the action, so to speak, and if you're good, the work will come to you. I feel very Irish; maybe that's why I've been so lucky with my career.

I don't really go around feeling very Irish at all. I don't go to Irish pubs. I've lived so many places, and I'm still so curious about the bigger world. It's grand to be alive in a time when mobility is so accessible.

The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.

I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.

I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.

We've got enormous potential, phenomenal potential on our doorstep, which requires politics that makes that work, and that's what we try to show here in Ireland: that while there's a lot of pain, the reward at the end of this is career opportunities, prosperity, and brighter days for everybody.

Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman.

I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.