Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Adrian Dunbar - Page 2

I have to learn sometimes 25 pages at a time. The takes can last 20 minutes - we do big, long takes. You always hope that you get a couple of days in between so you can learn the next one because you can't keep everything in your head at the one time.

I think the scripts for 'Line of Duty' and 'Blood' are both asking the audience to get involved in speculating as to what is going to happen next, or what should be happening next.

A lot of the time in Ireland we put people into boxes and that's it.

When they see you on the street, I was at the bottom of Highgate West Hill the other day and the police came down the hill with blue lights and screeched to a halt and went, 'Oi, 'Line Of Duty!'

Ted Hastings is the guy you would hope would be part of the police. He's got his problems, but is relentless in the pursuit of the truth.

I do like the dark, gritty psychological thrillers, but sometimes we need a little respite from that.

Beckett was the most thorough of playwrights. He tells you what to do and if you've any humility at all, you'll take his advice.

Any mother watching her son achieve his dreams shares that success at some level.

The list of unlikely sex symbols is pretty long if you look online.

The first time I stepped on stage in the local theatre I knew what I needed to do - I knew I had found the right place to be.

You really can't pigeon hole yourself into one particular artistic area any more; the days of one vocation in the arts have long gone.

'Line of Duty' does seem to be a bit old school as in people are happy to watch it, talk about it, wait for the next episode, and get back on it.

When you are younger and more radical, the police seem like the enemy.

It seems to me that after the second world war, Beckett finally realized he had something to write about.

It would help a lot of directors if they tried a little bit of acting, so they can understand what the process is about. It certainly wouldn't do them any harm.

Actors are like race horses. They like to run - they don't like to be hanging about.

I trained to be a theatre actor, I love the live gig, the transference between an audience and a performer.

There's no doubt that New York held its temptations for any writer - it still does.

But it needs to be understood that alcoholism is a disease not a lifestyle choice.

I would like to work with my mate Gary Oldman again. I think Gary would be an interesting person to bring into 'Line Of Duty.'

I love going back to Northern Ireland.

Belfast is great.

We pay millions of pounds to separate Catholic and Protestant children, and even more millions on attempting to bring them together as adults. You can't make someone fear another person if they shared a desk for seven years.

I have never been in an ongoing series before and after series two I realized the writer has absolute control of your life.

One of the things that's wonderful about having a festival in a small town like Enniskillen is that we don't have lots of purpose-built venues so we have to be creative about where we place events.

Belfast has many advantages for the filmmakers, one of which is the existence of an airport right in the middle of the city.

I think sometimes we do miss what a fabulous playwright Brian Friel is.

Of course, that is true of a lot of people, whether they drink or not - celebrities or actors have an image they've created, and an image people like of them.

My mother never once asked me to stay at home, because she knew acting was something I really wanted to do. She was great.

The problem is that in Ireland everybody thinks you have to have a 'take' on something. But if you have a 'take' on something then that's a spoof.

There are so many police series that we all end up playing a cop of one hue or another eventually.

But the older I get, the more I like my father and understand him. I was the first-born and he was very proud of me but he never was able to tell me that.

I used to feel sorry for some of the guys who were in 'EastEnders,' who had done something terrible to somebody, and people were shouting at them in the street. I'd think: 'God, I'd hate it if that happened to me.'

There are Behan experts in international universities, but we seem to have forgotten him here in Ireland. He was an extraordinarily gifted writer. His poetry alone is outstanding.

There was a big thing in the Behan family of achieving and wanting to be something special. There was a big drive in the family, even though it was poor and working class, to do something important, to contribute something to Irish culture. He certainly achieved that in a spectacular way.

Kurt Vonnegut talks about how we know there is another family out there and when we find it we get this almost instinctive sense of belonging. And that is how I felt in Enniskillen in 1977 when I realized there were these people of all ages, whatever their religion, from different backgrounds, who were bound together by a love of plays and acting.

I am on a mural in Belfast with 'Floating up the Lagan in a bubble' on it. You know you have made it when you have got a mural.

My father was a foreman on building sites and he was really good at getting a day's work out of fellas. And he did it without being a tyrant. He was a good guy.

We need ongoing indigenous products, like 'Blood,' to sell on the international market.

Integrated education should be the norm - I'm passionate about that.