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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. 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.

I've always been fascinated by Oscar Wilde.

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.

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

Ted Hastings is the guy you would hope would be part of the police. He's got his problems, but is relentless in the pursuit of the truth.

There was a period in my life when alcohol was a good friend. Then there came a point when I realized that it was definitely not a good friend. I haven't had a drink now for many years.

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

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.

People sometimes forget that alcohol is a chemical. It can change how you think. It was making me into a glass-half-empty person.

I love going back to Northern Ireland.

Belfast is great.

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.

Actors are like race horses. They like to run - they don't like to be hanging about.

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.

'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.

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

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

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.

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.'

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

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

Belfast has many advantages for the filmmakers, one of which is the existence of an airport right in the middle of the city.

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!'