“Father Ted' was written by Irish people, so that was fine, but around ...” — Ardal O'Hanlon Quote

“Father Ted' was written by Irish people, so that was fine, but around the time we were shooting it 'EastEnders' went to Ireland and represented it as this terribly backward society where people were going around with one eye and drunk.”

“As a comedian, you can't tell people that they're wrong or that they're stupid.”

“They were always my favourite scenes working with Don Warrington. He's such a brilliant actor, he has such a presence, you don't have to act with him you just react you know he's so good.”

“A lot of folks look at the political calculation and then determine the policy. I think that's backward.”

“Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.”

“I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.”