Quotes

Taken from various interviews, concerts, newspaper articles and books.

Interviewer: Who is the leader?
Caroline: I am the leader.
Jim: No, I am.
Sharon (to Jim): No, you are not.
Andrea: The truth is... It's me.

Interviewer: You're Andrea.
Andrea: I know.

Caroline: We pretty much needed a drummer, and I, well...I had nothing better to do!

Andrea: I...I...erm...What?

Caroline: When I was drumming with Mick Fleetwood I thought I looked half mad. I thought I looked half crazy.
Sharon: I thought she looked half mad as well.

Andrea: Honestly, I don't know what I'm thinking sometimes when I'm writing songs. Take "Forgiven Not Forgotten", for instance. Why would I write a line like (saying it cautiously) "I'll remain"? I can't even pronounce it without getting all tongue tied, and I end up having to perform it a hundred times...I can't even say it!
Caroline: It's very funny really, the number of times she's stumbled over that line.
Jim: What line?
Caroline: Oh no, you're not getting me - leave this as just Andrea's embarrassment for now!
Andrea: You are too kind, dear sister!
Sharon: Watch it Caroline, she knows where you live!

Sharon: I'm sure it's bizarre, but, ah, it's fun, it's great. Like dressing up and getting make up done. It's good fun.
Caroline: It sucks!

Interviewer: Is it true that you went knocking on Michael Jackson's door, offering him money?
Andrea: Yes, he was a bit broke at the time...!

Jim: That was played in the key of F demented!

Andrea: Can I remember what it felt like when my breasts started to grow? No, I'm still waiting!
Sharon: As the eldest, I was first to develop and it was awful. The other girls would try my bras on.
Caroline: We were jealous because we wanted them too.

Caroline: I've never liked drugs. Maybe I've never taken the good stuff.

Andrea (on her part in "The Commitments"): Brushing my hair. That's half of my part. You know how where you comb your hair, and then pick up little bits of paper with the comb? Well, with all the cuts and retakes, I am brushing my hair for about 3 hours- you could've lifted a book.

Andrea: But em...em...we....we....we...we...were...em...
Jim: Hello?

Andrea: When we were young, our family used to sit around the piano a lot, on those wet days.
Jim: And how we wished one of us could play it.
Caroline: Boom boom.

Andrea: This is VH1, we are The Corrs and we are looking after VH1's musical output for this St. Patrick's day. Normally we'd be somewhere else. In fact actually Caroline, where would you be as it's your birthday?
Caroline: God, y'know I'd definitely be in some pub in Ireland having copious amounts of alcohol.
Andrea: No, you wouldn't, your a tea-totaler!
Caroline: No I'm not!
Jim: I'd be in some pub under a table full of Green Beer at this point.
Sharon: I'd be as far away from this lot as possible.
Andrea: I'd be picking shamrock in a nice little garden.
All: Yeah right!

Andrea: They all got to go home, and I had to fly on to Budapest to shoot for Evita...but it was alright, all my scenes were in a bed - so I got to rest!

Caroline: I'm Caroline, the middle one.
Interviewer: How can you be the middle of four?
Sharon: I don't know, 'cos that would also make me the middle one.
Caroline: (laughs) Oh yeah, that's true!

Andrea: We do live in each others' pockets a lot.
Sharon: Sometimes you wake up and instead of "good morning", all you want to say is "I'm so sick of the sight of you".
Caroline: Yeah, we sit there, eating breakfast, just glaring at each other, kind of daring anyone to speak...it's very good thinking time.

Andrea: Would you like some more tea with your sugar?

Interviewer: Do you have nicknames for each other?
Andrea: Not worthy of repeating on live television!
Caroline: I'm usually called Caz, sometimes Caz, the girls would call me Caz maybe....but Andy Pandy...
Andrea: I think we should stop now!

Interviewer: What's your most unpleasant characteristic?
Andrea: That I lose things all the time, it's a pain for other people. Something stops in my brain, a kind of malfunction. If you asked my brother he would say dizzy. He calls me 'Danger Dizzy'.

Jim: We must be the most boring band on the planet.

Caroline: We're from a small town called Ire...er...
Jim: Ireland...a small town.

Andrea: I like black. It creates an...atmosphere...
Caroline: Of death!

Sharon: I'm a rocket scientist.
Andrea: I'm a neurologist.
Jim: I'm a brain surgeon.
Andrea: Same thing. See how much he knows about it?

Andrea: Sibling quartet! I hate that!
Sharon: It sounds like chicken livers!
Andrea: Giblet quartet!

Interviewer: Who is the worst person you've ever sat next to on a plane?
Sharon: Umm...my brother.

Sharon: Oh yeah, we do have scripts, kinda, for our videos. But then they usually fly out the window within 11 seconds.

Caroline: There's actually 14 in our family, but we disowned the others.

Jim: You don't seem to understand, the girls are here to make me look good!

Andrea: Oh no, we do fight. We have spectacular cat fights. You wouldn't believe it.
Jim: I would...!

Interviewer: Where do you see yourself 10 years down the road?
Caroline: I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!

Andrea: Oh, my God! I've had people pull my thumb out of my mouth.
Interviewer: Try putting Tabasco sauce on your thumb. That usually does the trick.
Andrea: Why? It's not like I want to stop.
Sharon: It's not like it's bad for you.
Andrea: Well actually, I have broken a few nails!

Interviewer: Do you have any sibling rivalry?
Andrea: We do have a problem with Jim borrowing our dresses, but that's about all that goes kind of wrong at this stage.
Sharon: But he looks good in them.
Jim: Nice guys, thank you. Just ruin my image.

Andrea: This is the Joy Of Life... no it's not...

Sharon: I mean, y'know Andrea was 15 when she got into it, so y'know she was a lot younger and then y'know Jim you were what, 50?
Jim: 52, let's be honest here.

Andrea: Fame? Fame ... I don't think that you ever adjust to that. Maybe in the future we'll look back and go, 'My God!' that was big and we were very famous and all, but that is ... that is a very separate being than we are. You know, this famous picture. I think it has to stay that way so that you can maintain your sanity, because I don't think you're supposed to be looked at this much. I don't think you're supposed to see yourself this much. No person is supposed to see themselves as much as this, you know, and hear their own voices and stuff like that. So I think you've got to separate yourself.

Sharon: I don't look in the mirror and say, 'Wow I am so sexy!'

Sharon: I was just thinking yesterday how happy I would be if we weren't always perceived as being beautiful. I mean don't get me wrong. I thank God he's been so kind to us. But I would love so much not to have all this stuff that goes along with being attractive. Sometime I just want to yell, 'Hey, I'm here for the music leave my hair alone!' I get so sick of all the make-up sometimes.

Sharon: We never mime. You could tell if we were if the tin whistle part was perfect, though!

Interviewer: Caroline, how's that? Your big movie debut ("The Commitments") and your own sister can't even find you.
Caroline: I can't even find me!

Sharon: We rehearsed and rehearsed and rehearsed in front of mirrors in a dusty old house, it was Jim's. He never cleaned it.

Andrea: I'm terrible. I've never been good at living within my means. When we were really broke, I was forever coming home with clothes and pretending I'd bought them in a sale.

Sharon: We grew up in Dundalk, on the east coast of Ireland, and went to a Catholic school, so we had to wear uniforms - these green skirts and blazers. It was horrible. We'd roll the skirt up so it was unbelievably short to attract the boys' school next door. And if you put Doc Martens with it, you were a bit cooler.

Sharon: We communicate well with people, and we like to talk and y'know get on and that's always more important than being #1 in the charts, though we do like that too... so please!

Interviewer: (talking about "The Boys and Girl from County Clare") Down and dirty fiddling!
Andrea: That was another movie, but I wasn't in it.

Interviewer (Donna Air): So guys, where did you all meet?

Jim: This is a completely ridiculous thing, I air guitar to our own music.