Ardal O'Hanlon Quotes

I don't know who had a more tiresome, wall-to-wall schedule than my father, and I know what it's like to be a kid in that situation. He was gone a lot. He needed to be. I understood it. So did my mom.

I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.

I basically work all the time.

I guess I am working pretty much all the time.

People have no clue how demanding my schedule was back in the day. There were times when I might be home for just one or two days a month.

I'm constantly on the go.

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.

My father used to be away for months at a time, and he'd never leave any money for food, so my brother and I had to go out and nick it.

'Longmire' is an incredibly hard shooting schedule because the locations are usually an hour away every morning, and I come home every weekend. I fly back to L.A. for about 26 hours a weekend, just to touch base back at home. It's a lot of work. It's four really intense months.

Normally, I work 18 hours a day.

I didn't have a father figure in the house.

Everything was an escape for me when I was younger. I had a tumultuous home life thanks to the unsavoury characters my mom would marry. My brother just sort of evaded, and my dad lived far away, so I was left alone.

I work all the time, and I'm basically in the office from the time I wake up and then working until I go to sleep every day.

My father wasn't there the majority of the time. My father, someone who I always honored and looked up to, had been in the military; he had been to war. I would hear stories about different experiences he went through, but as I got older, my father moved away.

I have two kids, a career, and a man that takes a lot of my attention and time.

I basically hit the deck running as soon as I wake up and don't turn my brain off till long after the lights are out.

My father - he was an orthodontist - was supposed to sell his practice and move down to Florida, but that never happened... I would sometimes spend the summer with him and visit him, but he never lived with us.

While I live a busy life, the pace ebbs and flows.

Dad was never a Mr. Mum-type of person who'd stay at home. It was a big thing when he was home - he was a circus.

I didn't meet my father until I was in the fourth grade.

I know that my dad not being in my life made a huge impact on me.

I meet an enormous number of incredible people all the time, people I find very inspiring, and I'm very busy.

I didn't have a dad coming up. I didn't have someone to be scared of.

I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more successful you are, the more demands you have. But it's definitely worth the sacrifice.

My father was not really a presence for me. He was away; he was in the German army.