100 Quotes by Adrian Dunbar

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.

'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.

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.

You have the most amazing Irish actors. Cillian on 'Peaky Blinders.' And the most amazing actress.

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've always been fascinated by Oscar Wilde.

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!

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

You really can't pigeon hole yourself into one particular artistic area any more; the days of one vocation in the arts have long gone.