Actress Quote by Adrian Dunbar

I'm Irish and very proud of being Irish, but as an actor, your extraction should be secondary, really. You should be able to embody…

— Cillian Murphy

You're an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn't be limited by your extraction.

— Cillian Murphy

I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of…

— Christopher Meloni

I do go back to Ireland, and I'll probably be doing a film in Ireland in January, and I guess that kind of keeps…

— Colm Meaney

Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.

— Garry Hynes

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

— Fiona Shaw

For me, people in Ireland who became actors would have to go through the Billy Barry's in Dublin.

— Aisling Bea

Most actors here go to the West Coast; I ended up going to Ireland. My buddies who left drama school, they had this arrogance…

— Brian F. O'Byrne

Irish and Italian are my two favourite people.

— Paul Haggis

To make a career as an Irish actor, generally it's the case that you move to London. When you make that move, you do…

— Aidan Turner

Throughout Ireland, there's a brilliant community of filmmakers and actors, and I guess there was always a lure to do some work in the…

— Jamie Dornan

I'm Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in the Irish Midlands.…

— John Patrick Shanley