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But it needs to be understood that alcoholism is a disease not a lifestyle choice.Collection: Adrian
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.Collection: Adrian
People sometimes forget that alcohol is a chemical. It can change how you think. It was making me into a glass-half-empty person.Collection: Adrian
I love going back to Northern Ireland.Collection: Adrian
Belfast is great.Collection: Adrian
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.Collection: Adrian
Actors are like race horses. They like to run - they don't like to be hanging about.Collection: Adrian
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.Collection: Adrian
'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.Collection: Adrian
It seems to me that after the second world war, Beckett finally realized he had something to write about.Collection: Adrian
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.Collection: Adrian
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.Collection: Adrian
The list of unlikely sex symbols is pretty long if you look online.Collection: Adrian
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.Collection: Adrian
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.'Collection: Adrian
I have never been in an ongoing series before and after series two I realized the writer has absolute control of your life.Collection: Adrian
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.'Collection: Adrian
Belfast has many advantages for the filmmakers, one of which is the existence of an airport right in the middle of the city.Collection: Adrian
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!'Collection: Adrian
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.Collection: Adrian
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.Collection: Adrian
A lot of the time in Ireland we put people into boxes and that's it.Collection: Adrian
There's no doubt that New York held its temptations for any writer - it still does.Collection: Adrian
There are so many police series that we all end up playing a cop of one hue or another eventually.Collection: Adrian
I do like the dark, gritty psychological thrillers, but sometimes we need a little respite from that.Collection: Adrian
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.Collection: Adrian
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.Collection: Adrian
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.Collection: Adrian
My mother never once asked me to stay at home, because she knew acting was something I really wanted to do. She was great.Collection: Adrian
Any mother watching her son achieve his dreams shares that success at some level.Collection: Adrian
We need ongoing indigenous products, like 'Blood,' to sell on the international market.Collection: Adrian
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.Collection: Adrian
I think sometimes we do miss what a fabulous playwright Brian Friel is.Collection: Adrian
My father was a foreman on building sites and he was really good at getting a day's work out of fellas. And he did it without being a tyrant. He was a good guy.Collection: Adrian
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.Collection: Adrian
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!Collection: Adrian
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.Collection: Adrian
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.Collection: Adrian
I trained to be a theatre actor, I love the live gig, the transference between an audience and a performer.Collection: Adrian
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.Collection: Adrian
Darts should definitely be in the Olympic Games. Can you tell me any difference between archery and darts or shooting and darts? It's a very similar concept and both of those are in the Olympic Games. And don't forget that darts is also a hugely popular sport.Collection: Adrian
I know people say that we are a load of beer drinkers but we are far more professional these days. These critics should come and have a go at playing darts if they think it is so easy.Collection: Adrian
We don't spend our lives at dartboards in the pub - we are at home practising.Collection: Adrian
I was very proud after winning the World Championship the first time, so to win it three times, and consecutively, would be great.Collection: Adrian
I'm just trying keep focused and believe in myself, that's been my game plan.Collection: Adrian
If I'm on my game it doesn't really matter about anybody else.Collection: Adrian
When you first start playing, that's your aim obviously, to win the world title.Collection: Adrian
I've got respect for everybody I play but I don't fear anybody. Nobody causes me sleepless nights.Collection: Adrian
When I am playing my game, I fear nobody.Collection: Adrian
To tell you the truth I thought I was going to be in the building trade, I worked in a builders' merchants in Stoke.Collection: Adrian