Adrian Dunbar

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 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.

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

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

'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.

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.

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

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.

Belfast is great.

I love going back to Northern Ireland.

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.

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

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 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.'

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

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.

'The Decay Of Lying' is a very interesting treatise. It was actually penned as a dialogue between two characters, Cyril and Vyvyan, both of who were named after Wilde's sons. Wilde goes on to extrapolate art as a science and as a social pleasure, to its most logical and illogical extremes, and it ends up being very funny, indeed.

You have the most amazing Irish actors. Cillian on 'Peaky Blinders.' And the most amazing actress.

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.

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.

When you're young and a teenager, there's an air of excitement about living with a time when you have to grasp life as much as you can because it may be taken from you.

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.

I do like things that are a bit reckless, so long as the people around me are professionals. Stuntmen will see you through anything.

You've got the armor and everything on, and you think, 'This is going to be great.' Then they give you a sword, and you think, 'Ah, it's not too bad.' And after 10 minutes you're thinking, 'Please, I can't be doing this all day.' I mean, I really don't know how people sustained themselves in real battles.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

There were two drama societies in Enniskillen when I was growing up, St. Michaels and the Enniskillen Amateur Dramatic Society, and I had the pleasure of working with them both.

I know a lot of actors who have said to me, 'who'd have thought you could put a two-shot on screen for twenty minutes and people would be absolutely locked in, how does that work?' Well it does work, when the story is great and you've got these fabulous twists and turns - so those are my favorite bits!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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!'

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

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.

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