Quotes from Adrian Dunbar

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.

We lived in this ghetto during the worst excesses of the Seventies. When the tartan gangs came to wreck our estate, we had to defend it. We were barricaded in with diggers and earth-movers. It wasn't a case of joining the Republican cause, or the IRA - we were fighting for our very existence.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Portadown was the most marginalized of all the Nationalist communities in the North. Suddenly we were living in a town where, if you were Catholic, you literally couldn't walk up the street without getting into some kind of conflict.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

'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.