Quotes by Ian Mcelhinney - Page 1

Adrenaline, swords - you just get off on it.
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Adrenaline
Swords
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Sometimes all you can do is sit back and be amazed.
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Amazed
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But I love the change and the variety directing brings.
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Variety
Directing
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Being part of 'Game of Thrones' is amazing, really incredible.
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Game Of Thrones
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It's always stressful working on a new piece, but it concentrates the energy.
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Stressful
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Christopher Gore is a great character, portrayed with wisdom and understanding.
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Gore
Christopher
Portrayed
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Ordinarily, when you go to see a play, an awful lot is presented in front of your eyes.
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Eyes Your See
Awful Lot
Ordinarily
Presented
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It's strange to be getting into your dotage and suddenly discovering that you have a fanbase.
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Discovering
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It's weird... I've been an actor for a long time and you can walk around more or less anonymously.
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Time Walk Long
Anonymously
More Or Less
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There are certainly many British plays which go down far better with Dublin audiences than they would in Belfast.
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Belfast
Dublin
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For years, I was just Joe Bloggs. There was no excitement until 'Game of Thrones,' and then people started recognizing me.
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Excitement
Recognizing
Game Me People
Game Of Thrones
Joe
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But I think you have to accept - as I have accepted - that the demands of TV are different than the demand of book writing.
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Accepted
Book Writing
Demand
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There are still times when the person who is challenging you as an actor is also the person who sometimes challenges you as your child.
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Your Child
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If someone said to me, 10 years ago, that I'd be spending effectively my retirement years in sci-fi and fantasy, I'd have said, 'Well, don't be ridiculous.'
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Retirement
Sci Fi
Effectively
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I very much enjoyed my time on 'Doctor Who.' The team were a delight to work with and everyone was very supportive and welcoming. All in all it was a blast.
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Blast
Delight
Doctor Who
Supportive
Welcoming
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I would quite like to see stories that are not necessarily to do with the violence, because I think there was quite a lot of normality in our world - but it is never reflected on the screen.
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Normality
Our World
Quite A Lot
Reflected
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One of the issues with the fight scene - especially with actors - is that when the adrenaline gets going you lose the plot. Before you know it, you've hit somebody and you've hit them harder than you meant to.
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Adrenaline
Plot
Fight Scene
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I was living in Britain and then America, but it wasn't until I returned to live in Ireland in the late '70s that I really became aware of Seamus Heaney. I discovered quickly that his poems are very accessible.
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Ireland
Accessible
Returned
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With 'Stones is His Pockets' you have effectively a bare stage with two actors and yet a whole world in rural Ireland is created. There's the countryside, the bar interior, the dressing room and the star's bedroom.
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Bedroom
Countryside
Ireland
Pockets
Bar
Bare
Dressing
Dressing Room
Effectively
Interior
Rural
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On another level I'd unfortunately read the books. I knew Barristan had a different story in the books and I was hoping for a bit more of Barristan alive before he met his comeuppance... well, comeuppance is unfair, he didn't deserve a comeuppance.
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Different Story
Hoping
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The thing that surprised me the other day was, and I was quite taken aback when I realized it, I am nearly five-and-a-half years out of 'Game of Thrones.' I last filmed on it in the winter of 2013 and it's kind of becoming, bizarrely, a bit of a distant memory.
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Winter
Game Me Day
Distant
Game Of Thrones
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'Derry Girls' just has a sense of knowing exactly who these people are and also a fun memory of how things were, even in spite of all the chaos around them. It's very entertaining and it stays wonderfully buoyant because it focuses on the kids and the families.
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Chaos
Entertaining
Spite
Buoyant
Stays
Wonderfully
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Going back to when I was younger in this business, you did something that would be screened in various places and this sort of popularity never occurred to you. Now you do these things and there are so many more platforms, there's many more things being put out on a global basis.
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Platforms
Occurred
Screened
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The Sons of the Harpy are basically the people who represent the old regime. They don't want Daenerys in there governing them. Daenerys has this attitude about the fighting pits being reopened, which is part of their tradition. There's quite a considerable resentment to the fact that she doesn't want this to happen.
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Governing
Pits
Resentment
Considerable
Sons
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One of the problems that comes up time and time again seems to be this notion of being 'pure' Irish. If you are Protestant, born in the Northern part of the island and deeply into the Protestant tradition, that somehow does not make you a legitimate Irish person. Yet there is a huge British influence in parts of the South.
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Notion
Island
Legitimate
Northern
One Of The Problems
Protestant
Time And Time
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