I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.
I remember as a kid being asked if I was Jewish or Irish. I said, like the glib little 15-year-old I was, 'You can be both.' Feeling very pleased with myself. Before they smacked me.
People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.
I am an unusual Irishman. I'm probably Ireland's third most famous Jewish son.
The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.
I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'm both.
I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.
I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.
I really don't even think of myself as being Jewish except when I'm in Germany.
I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's ancestry.