James Nesbitt Quotes
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I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my soul.
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I get an awful lot of people coming up and saying they went to school with me. There must have been 80,000 pupils at that school!
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When people say, 'You're perceived as a sex symbol,' I love the idea of that because it's so absurd.
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Supporting drama for young people is close to my heart.
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Like the character I played in 'Jekyll', we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to lead decent lives, we're also attracted by the idea that something dark may lurk within us.
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I've always been a family man and count myself as one of those who are lucky to have the comfort of a family.
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Ever since I left Northern Ireland, I've always been pretty comfortable on my own, which contradicts a lot of people's perceptions of me.
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You don't learn charm. It's not something that you can acquire. I have used it much in my life with great success, but it's not necessarily what makes me an actor. It became a very easy label to attach to me. It also feels a bit dismissive. People go, 'You're so lovely and charming', but it's a wee bit, 'That's all you are.'
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I want to beat up Michael Fassbender in a movie. I was with him at the beginning of his career when he did an episode of 'Murphy's Law.' He's a proper superstar and enormously talented, but I want to do a scene where I properly duff him up.
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Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they tend to remember their failures rather than their successes, and that must be very hard. Who do you share that failure with? That's why their personal lives are often disastrous.
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I've got a history in my life of difficult times.
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It's hard to make a film in Britain. It's hard to raise money. The best stuff that is shot on film in Britain is usually shot on film for television.
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I lived a dual life, and when my dual life exploded, I began to feel much happier.
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What I discovered all over Ireland is that people living simple lives by the sea or in the remote countryside seem a lot calmer than city folk with their iPads and their Android phones.
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Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.
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It's easy to get carried away with yourself.
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I love nothing more than going to eat by myself with a newspaper.
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I grew up loving women and without misogyny, rancour or prejudice, totally loved and loving. And no matter what has happened since, I don't think I have treated women in my life very badly.
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When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.
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I'm no pin-up.
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As fabulous as technology is, it can also make us very anxious.
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When I was growing up, Belfast City Hall was surrounded by security, and we had no access to it. But now, people come in and out of it all the time. On a nice day, office workers and students sit on the lawn outside and have lunch. It's great to see how Northern Ireland has changed. To be part of that is fantastic.
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If you are going to tell a story about a child going missing, it's going to have similarities with a real life child going missing.
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If I get to the end of my life, and people say, 'He was in 'Cold Feet,' well, I was, and it was great. I thought the fourth series wasn't great. I thought there were weak episodes throughout. Overall, I thought it was a good show, it had an impact, it dealt with a lot of issues, and it was a great part.