Ardal O'hanlon Quotes - Page 2 of 2

When you grow up in a border area of Ireland, people are very wary and cagy and keep their head down at all times. Don't speak unless it's absolutely essential, and don't give anything away.
Ardal O'hanlon / Comedian
Ireland
Keep Grow People
Border
Wary
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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 / Comedian
Documentaries
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My father was a typical Irish father. He was a nice, hard working, driven guy. His politics were very conservative and I was just a very different kind of kid to that. I was very shy and bookish.
Ardal O'hanlon / Comedian
Driven
Typical
Different Kind
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The beauty of stand-up is that it's very flexible, it's very malleable and immediate. Whatever is in your head that day you can verbalise in some way that night. It's the medium that suits me best.
Ardal O'hanlon / Comedian
Flexible
Suits
Immediate
Malleable
Medium
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I was a terribly quiet, shy child. The comedy thing came when I was at university and I started doing stand-up, which I think was a belated compensation for all that time I spent hiding behind the couch.
Ardal O'hanlon / Comedian
Belated
Compensation
Hiding
Couch
Terribly
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From day one working in TV, I have been very conscious of the way the Irish are represented, In every show I've been involved in I read the script, take out the Irishisms right away and say, 'I'll supply those'.
Ardal O'hanlon / Comedian
Day One
Right Away
Supply
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