“I wouldn't call myself an actor or a singer for that matter, just a journeyman. […] I feel I must have a talent somewhere for doing something but I'm still not terribly sure what it is. I suppose it's a talent for being myself.”

— Ronnie Drew

Source: Ronnie (2008, posthumous), p. 196; Quoting from Sunday Times, June 2000

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