Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish…

My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.

— Dominic West

No one would ever cast me as an aristocrat. I think the big thing about being an Irish artist is access to melancholy. Especially…

— Brian Dennehy

It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone…

— Frank McCourt

I am an American man, and in America, we still think of figure skaters as little girls in pretty, sparkly dresses - I worked…

— Johnny Weir

I'm higher than I expected.

— Veronik Mallet

“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I've always enjoyed performing. I was in figure skating before, and then I joined my first school play. Ever since that, you have not…

— Daniela Bobadilla

“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

An athlete gains so much knowledge by just participating in a sport. Focus, discipline, hard work, goal setting and, of course, the thrill of…

— Kristi Yamaguchi

Figure skating is theatrical, and a part of it is wearing costumes. My costumes were very over-the-top and outrageous for figure skating. But for…

— Johnny Weir

I decided to host my show 'Kiss and Cry' hoping that people actually want to participate and feel more familiar with figure skating. When…

— Yuna Kim

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

— Anonymous

I think skating helped me find myself.

— Peggy Fleming