I was able to tour successfully and attract a fairly wide audience, but it was hard to assert myself as a stand-up because people were more familiar with me as a TV character. Ardal O'Hanlon Read Quote
I couldn’t make a living as a comic in Ireland and I was watching my friends from college getting good jobs, buying houses, and I had to really take stock and say: am I going to go for this comedy thing, or what? Ardal O'Hanlon Read Quote
My mother tells me I regaled people with stories but I don’t remember that. And she disputes the idea that I might be chronically shy. She says I was the most outgoing of all of us. Ardal O'Hanlon Read Quote
Where I come from people are very deadpan with a dry humour that I suppose rubbed off on me. Ardal O'Hanlon Read Quote
Irish politicians are very accessible to the public, just the messenger boys for the local constituency. Ardal O'Hanlon Read Quote
I’ve always wanted to play a detective. Always loved detective shows, right back to ‘Columbo’, ‘The Rockford Files’, ‘Starsky & Hutch’. Ardal O'Hanlon Read Quote
I suppose British people generally, probably have very stereotypical notions about the Irish that go back to Victorian times. Ardal O'Hanlon Read Quote
I think there is a very strong sense of Irish identity, and I think partly that’s to do with the fact that we have evolved differently from Britain and other countries in Europe. Ardal O'Hanlon Read Quote
I think Irish people pride themselves on being at the forefront of technological industries, things like the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, all those hi-tech industries, we’re always there or thereabouts. Ardal O'Hanlon Read Quote
I think making a documentary gets you out and about more, with people. With stand-up, you’re talking at people. With documentaries you’re talking with people, and you’re listening a lot more. Ardal O'Hanlon Read Quote
