“Quote Unquote” “I may be in the first scene of my third act. I thought it had all been first act but I guess there was a second act in there somewhere. I have a fear and I won’t go with dignity and grace. I’m afraid of being afraid.”
Playwright Terrance McNally who has been operated on for lung cancer and is now cancer free.
– The New York Times
"You British keep claiming people that don’t belong to you. We had that problem in America too – it’s called slavery.”
Samuel L. Jackson, to a British interviewer who asked him what it was like working with Colin Farrell "because he’s one of our own."
"It goes against the tenets of my faith to be racist in any form, [and] to be anti-Semitic is to be un-Christian, and I'm not."
Mel Gibson denying claims that he or his movie The Passion of the Christ is anti-Semitic in an interview with Diane Sawyer, prior to the opening of the controversial movie.
– ABC Primetime
“The D.U.P. (Democratic Unionist Party) cannot be permitted to disenfranchise half the population . . . by refusing to form a government with Sinn Féin.”
Statement issued by Democratic presidential contender Senator John Kerry. – Irish Voice
“Plans which rely upon Iraqis to replace American troops face the same dilemma that confronted the British in Northern Ireland. Protestants could be recruited to serve in the Royal Ulster Constabulary, but Catholics who served were seen as traitors and murdered by the IRA. Hence the RUC became a sectarian force. In Iraq, using Shias or Kurds to control the Sunni areas would have similar effects."
Christopher Hewitt of the University of Maryland.
– Irish Times
“ Once a movie makes money, the U.S. in particular, suddenly becomes interested. Magazines want to put you in their publications and claim that they ‘discovered you’ when in reality you have been working your arse off for years.”
(Ok, Cillian, we promise not to claim that Irish America discovered this Irish star of 28 Days Later, Girl With the Pearl Earring, Intermission and the upcoming Batman movie.)
Cillian Murphy interviewed in The Irish Voice
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