James Nesbitt Quotes

I've never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I'm a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on, look at me. I'm really Desperate Dan.

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• Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • You
  • Child
  • Divorce

• When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Character
  • Words

• I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Know
  • Show

• I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Kind
  • Morality
  • Mortality

• I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Life
  • Business
  • Running

• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.

  

  Caitlin Fitzgerald
  • Good
  • Shine
  • Season

• Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Friends
  • Need
  • Youth

• I'm a warrior for the middle class.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Class
  • Warrior
  • Middle

• There is a moment in your story when you can pinpoint the exact time you fell in love, be it with a place or a person. I can remember both like it was yesterday.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Time
  • Love
  • Remember

• I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Girl
  • Weird
  • Beach

• I love India.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Love
  • I Love
  • India

• Tech never comes back the same.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • Never
  • Same
  • Back

• We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Happiness

• I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Looking Forward
  • Shah Rukh Khan

• You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Care
  • Lucky
  • Medical

• Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!

  

  Walter Huston
  • Up
  • Good
  • Man

• We communists know only one possession that is sacred - the life of the working man, the life of the worker, his wife and his children. That is the only possession which is sacred so far as we are concerned, and it gives us the right to do anything and everything.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Life
  • Children
  • Wife

• I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember.

  

  Alex Chilton Big Star
  • Country
  • Remember

• If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • People
  • Character
  • American

• When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Character
  • Hair

• Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher; but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.

  

  Daniel Harvey Hill
  • Character
  • Teacher
  • Mood

• I've never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I'm a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on, look at me. I'm really Desperate Dan.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Character