Adrian Dunbar

“I love music and hopefully I'll be able to do something with it - I just have to find time to get into the studio and record a few songs.”

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

“Myth is sometimes more important than history.”

“I have been doing stuff for a long time now and you would be in people's consciousness. But when you get something like a gift to play Ted Hastings, and some fabulous writing to get behind and a great crew, it suddenly allows people to go - 'I always knew he was good.'”

“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!”

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

“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.”

“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 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 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.”

“Comedy is essentially about watching a bunch of people who you really love lose their dignity.”

“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've been singing all of my life, one way or another.”

“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.”

“I love going back to Northern Ireland.”

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

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

“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.”

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