Irish Accent Quotes

• I used to go to the school folk club with my songs when I was only 13 or so and say "this is a traditional folk song" and sing it with a bad Irish accent to disguise the real source.

  Mark Knopfler

  Song, Real, School

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• I think I'm going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it and that's all I care about now!

  Chris O'Dowd

  Thinking, Forever, Care

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up with a very strong Irish accent.

  Dolores O'Riordan

  Strong, Grew Up, Accents

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• When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a coffee and heard an Irish accent?

  Michael Flatley

  Coffee, Dublin, Lasts

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• I'm going to name drop like an idiot now, but Bono rang me up once, right? I don't know how he got my number, but I, ever so stupidly, and obviously thought it was one of my mates mocking about. So I was like, "Yeah, whatever." And it was him, but I even went to him, "That's not even a good Irish accent!"

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Humor, Names

  "Never Mind the Buzzcocks". Comedy, Game-Show, Music, 1996 - 2015.

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• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion. Fifty years on, I don't associate the book with anything that ever happened to me, save for one wordless encounter at London airport when a worn-out, middle-aged military kind of man in a stained raincoat slammed a handful of mixed foreign change on to the bar and in gritty Irish accents ordered himself as much Scotch as it would buy. In that moment, Alec Leamas was born. Or so my memory, not always a reliable informant, tells me.

  John le Carre

  Memories, Military, Book

  "John le Carré: 'I was a secret even to myself'". www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2013.

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• I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70.

  Diane Ladd

  Looks, Accents, Tap Dance

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• I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke.

  James Nesbitt

  Mickey, Accents, Worst

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Song, Writing, Voice

  "New wave of Irish bands takes on America". www.cnn.com. November 3, 2000.

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• You didn’t tell me she was so soft on the eyes,” he said to Patch, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand. He spoke with a heavy Irish accent. “I didn’t tell her how hard you are on them either,” Patch returned, his mouth at the relaxed stage just before a grin.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Eye, Hands, Mouths

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but her own brogue is so faint that I had to keep pumping it up.

  Jodie Foster

  Play, Brogues, Accents

  "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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