Brian Dennehy quote — “No one would ever cast me as an aristocrat. I think the big thing abou…”

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No one would ever cast me as an aristocrat. I think the big thing about being an Irish artist is access to melancholy. Especially the American Irish. The availability of loss, some kind of pain, is an important part of who we are. I think my Irishness gave me that.

Brian Dennehy

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