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Adrian Dunbar

(1958) Film Actor

100 quotes in 317 categories

Adrian Dunbar notes that television has entered a golden age, with production values far higher than decades ago. He says artists can no longer be pigeon‑holed into a single field; many skills are now common. He also points out how Shakespeare’s stories balance moral questions with fine detail.

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Adrian Dunbar is a film actor.

Quick Facts About Adrian Dunbar

Born: August 1, 1958
Profession: Film Actor

About Adrian Dunbar

Northern Irish actor... | Adrian Dunbar is an Irish actor, director and singer, known for his television and theatre work. He co-wrote and starred in the 1991 film Hear My Song, nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the BAFTA awards.

Quotes by Adrian Dunbar

Belfast is great.

Belfast

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I love going back to Northern Ireland.

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It's 'Line of Duty' - you can't second-guess anything!

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I've always been fascinated by Oscar Wilde.

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

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Myth is sometimes more important than history.

History

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Anything's possible in 'Line of Duty.'

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It was a fabulous time, doing 'Hear My Song.'

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You show me a family, I'll show you dysfunction.

Dysfunction

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

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

Enemy

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I'd actually love to do comedy. It would be great to go to work to get a laugh.

Comedy

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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…

Economy

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I am on a mural in Belfast with 'Floating up the Lagan in a bubble' on it. You know you have made…

Artist

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It's much better as an actor if you can bring as much of yourself as possible to a character.

Actor

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

Comedy

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

Alcoholism

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You don't want to be acting your way towards something. The sense of believability has to be great, so bringing it as…

Acting

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I love music and hopefully I'll be able to do something with it - I just have to find time to get…

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I was really proud of the response to the first series of 'Blood.' Right from the get-go I knew it was a…

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People often say Beckett is difficult or bleak, but engaging with it is the most life-affirming, uplifting thing. It's his use of…

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I try to get out to The Skelligs, and people will know The Skelligs from 'Star Wars' and so forth, but they…

Island

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We're in a golden age for television. TV 25 years ago was slow, plodding , boring. The production values were not great.…

Age

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My father was a foreman on building sites and he was really good at getting a day's work out of fellas. And…

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I'm over the moon to play an iconic character like Ted Hastings and for my career to be defined by this role…

Actors

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Kurt Vonnegut talks about how we know there is another family out there and when we find it we get this almost…

Family

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When I was at drama school some of the teachers, who were very wise, said to me, 'You're going to be a…

Actors

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I know a lot of actors who have said to me, 'who'd have thought you could put a two-shot on screen for…

Actors

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We lived in this ghetto during the worst excesses of the Seventies. When the tartan gangs came to wreck our estate, we…

Existence

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'The Decay Of Lying' is a very interesting treatise. It was actually penned as a dialogue between two characters, Cyril and Vyvyan,…

Art

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There was a big thing in the Behan family of achieving and wanting to be something special. There was a big drive…

Culture

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We don't know what is going to happen with Brexit, it's not going to be good for the North anyway whatever happens.…

Brexit

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You've got the armor and everything on, and you think, 'This is going to be great.' Then they give you a sword,…

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I've been sweating away for 30 years - then I became Hastings.

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

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In Shakespeare, the moral balances are very fine.

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

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The variety of my career is amazing and amazingly satisfying.

Amazing

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I'm writing all the time, I never stopped writing.

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

Acting

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