Caitlin McKenna > Caitlin's Quotes

“Well, your father always says that if you have to say what you are, you aren”
― Caitlin McKenna, My Big Fake Irish Life

“Up to this point, my whole life had been pretty ordinary. And here I was, feeling like I’d stepped into a movie, pretending to be something I wasn’t. And these people with whom I interacted, these characters in my movie, were believing it. June and Mark actually thought I was Meghan O’Connell from Galway, Ireland. I let out a big laugh.”
― Caitlin McKenna, My Big Fake Irish Life

“I heard the high-pitched stabbing music from the shower scene in Psycho as my name seemed to grow bigger and bigger before my eyes. I slammed my checkbook shut. “Jesus, Mary and Joseph!”
― Caitlin McKenna, My Big Fake Irish Life

“I chewed on my lower lip. There had to be a way around the red tape and this Irish lass was going to find it. ~ Perhaps the best way to slip through a system unnoticed is through confusion and disorganization. Where could I find both in one place? The Department of Motor Vehicles.”
― Caitlin McKenna, My Big Fake Irish Life

“Perhaps the best way to slip through a system unnoticed is through confusion and disorganization. Where could I find both in one place? The Department of Motor Vehicles. Before I went down to The Most Miserable Place on Earth, I decided to prep for it. I treated it like an audition. I spent an hour on my hair and makeup, and an additional twenty minutes picking out the perfect short dress. Now it was time for some Irish charm.”
― Caitlin McKenna, My Big Fake Irish Life

“Being Irish was much better than having big boobs.”
― Caitlin McKenna, My Big Fake Irish Life

“You’re an American actress pretending to be an Irish actress playing an English actress who gets possessed by some German woman?”
― Caitlin McKenna, My Big Fake Irish Life

“I wondered how many Americans knew what states bordered Nebraska, especially when fifty percent of America’s high school students think New Mexico is a foreign country.”
― Caitlin McKenna, My Big Fake Irish Life

“My name is Linda Symcox—and I’m a lie-oholic”
― Caitlin McKenna, My Big Fake Irish Life

“Bonnie Tedesco, Casting Director from Hell. One of my father’s sayings quickly came to mind. “Dynamite comes in small packages.”
― Caitlin McKenna, My Big Fake Irish Life

“My name is Linda Symcox—and I’m a lie-oholic. I came to Hollywood to work as an actress, but soon found out that I couldn’t get a decent audition, let alone a job. It seems I didn’t stand out enough.”
― Caitlin McKenna, My Big Fake Irish Life

“Well, as my da always says, ‘If ya have to say what ya are, ya aren”
― Caitlin McKenna, My Big Fake Irish Life

“Do you have any idea what it’s like giving birth? Of course you don’t, but I’m going to tell you. It’s like trying to push a watermelon through a peashooter! Only your head was more like the size of a pumpkin. I’d never seen such a big head on a baby girl. And what do you do with that big head of yours? You use it to go around deceiving people!”
― Caitlin McKenna, My Big Fake Irish Life

“Women can’t talk to men. That’s why God created girlfriends.”
― Caitlin McKenna, My Big Fake Irish Life