Top 55 Adrian Dunbar Quotes

I would hope that the Government would still support those small, struggling independent theatre companies and also maybe look to the built architecture of the theaters because we can’t let them get into disrepair. They are part of the fabric of the country.

You don’t want to be acting your way towards something. The sense of believability has to be great, so bringing it as close to yourself as you can always helps.

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.

You hope that some day a part will come along and you can do your stuff and people will go, ‘oh that’s good.’ I just got very lucky.

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

When something like ‘Line of Duty’ happens, your profile is such that you’re asked to do different things. I’m careful not to spread myself too thinly or it just goes mad.

Yes, I did have a band for two or three years. They were called Adie and the Jonahs.

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

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!’

I was really proud of the response to the first series of ‘Blood.’ Right from the get-go I knew it was a really good yarn and that it would have a chance if we got it right.

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.

I think it would be difficult to explore some aspects of Ted’s past, because ‘Line of Duty’ investigates fictitious police forces – you never know, and you should never know, who it is we might be investigating.

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

You don’t want to alienate your audiences, so you have to be careful but yet you have to be true enough to what you believe.

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

I’m over the moon to play an iconic character like Ted Hastings and for my career to be defined by this role – that’s a place very few actors get to.

It’s much better as an actor if you can bring as much of yourself as possible to a character.

I try and speak out on things that affect where I live in London, and at home in Enniskillen. For instance, I am very keen we get our bypass – the town is completely clogged with traffic and it’s one of the most beautiful inland towns in Ireland.

There was a period in my life when alcohol was a good friend. Then there came a point when I realized that it was definitely not a good friend. I haven’t had a drink now for many years.

I love going back to Northern Ireland.

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.

The variety of my career is amazing and amazingly satisfying.

I think if we had an All-Ireland economy and the North was in the U.K. and in the E.U. that would be very good for the North.

I’ve always been fascinated by Oscar Wilde.

Sometimes when working on TV, especially when doing procedural cop work, you can refer to your notes. Your notes, of course, do contain, naturally, all the information you need.

People believe that forensics these days is the answer to everything and because we believe so ardently that forensics can lead us to the criminal we’re also a bit nonplussed when someone gets in there and manipulates forensics to their advantage.

I think ‘Blood’ is honest about the dysfunction of family life and Jim will have to get to the bottom of secrets being kept from him.

The Frank Matcham theaters in the West End in particular are incredible pieces of architecture.

I’d love to do something funny. Our work often deals with tough subjects. You do your research and it can be quite dark. So after all these years of drama, I’d like to go to work someday with the sole intention of making people laugh.

I’m not sure about doing 10 takes of running up a flight of stairs, whether I’m really up to that… but I’ll definitely have a go!

I’ve been sweating away for 30 years – then I became Hastings.

Belfast is great.

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 am an Irish person. I’m an Irishman, but I’m also an Ulsterman.

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

Myth is sometimes more important than history.

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

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

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.’

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

Integrated education should be the norm – I’m passionate about that.

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.

I’d actually love to do comedy. It would be great to go to work to get a laugh.

Shakespeare was very political, but he was also a fabulous entertainer. That’s where his genius comes in as a playwright.

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.

You show me a family, I’ll show you dysfunction.

We don’t know what is going to happen with Brexit, it’s not going to be good for the North anyway whatever happens. It’s not going to be good for Ireland whatever happens. And the problem is we don’t know what is going to happen so we can’t really prepare so everything is speculation.

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

We’re in a golden age for television. TV 25 years ago was slow, plodding , boring. The production values were not great. Today it’s so much better. People get really invested it.

The arts don’t care what your background is. They belong to everyone.

The ‘Mother of God’ stuff comes from my dad who used to use that all the time. He would say, ‘Mother of God’ all the time. He used to just say ‘Mother’ and we know what he meant.

In Shakespeare, the moral balances are very fine.

Because of ‘Line Of Duty’s proper adherence to police procedure, by definition we end up doing some very long interrogation scenes which are difficult to learn, and require lots of concentration to sustain them across shooting.

I’ve been singing all of my life, one way or another.

I try to get out to The Skelligs, and people will know The Skelligs from ‘Star Wars’ and so forth, but they really are the most incredible monastic settlement on this island off the south coast, the Kerry coast.