A biography for Adrian Dunbarhasn’t been written yet.
“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.'”
“Integrated education should be the norm - I'm passionate about that.”
“I'd actually love to do comedy. It would be great to go to work to get a laugh.”
“Yes, I did have a band for two or three years. They were called Adie and the Jonahs.”
“Shakespeare was very political, but he was also a fabulous entertainer. That's where his genius comes in as a playwright.”
“Belfast is great.”
“I've been sweating away for 30 years - then I became Hastings.”
“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 would like to work with my mate Gary Oldman again. I think Gary would be an interesting person to bring into 'Line Of Duty.'”
“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.”
“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.”
“The arts don't care what your background is. They belong to everyone.”
“I was in bands many years ago, so that's where it started. I played in bands, sang backing vocals and all the rest of it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I trained to be a theatre actor, I love the live gig, the transference between an audience and a performer.”
“But it needs to be understood that alcoholism is a disease not a lifestyle choice.”
“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 have never been in an ongoing series before and after series two I realized the writer has absolute control of your life.”