“People pay far too much attention to the television and they're quite ...” — Ardal O'Hanlon Quote

People pay far too much attention to the television and they're quite literal in some ways. At the beginning, when I was playing very stupid characters, I think people genuinely thought I was possibly quite dim-witted myself, which is a compliment in some ways, as I must have been doing my job very well.

I'm an ardent tennis player. I'm like an overenthusiastic child out there and I've damaged my back. It's not that it's crippling pain, more mental anguish.

Banter is a great way of breaking the ice.

I spent five years in Dublin as a stand-up, living on pea sandwiches. But at times I quite enjoyed the bohemian penniless existence.

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

When 'Mardaani' came out, one of the great compliments was that we hated the character but we loved the guy. So that was a great compliment to get, especially from female fans.

The best compliment you can give a hitter is he's a tough out; that initiates fear in a pitcher.

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!