James Nesbitt Quotes
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It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.
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I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
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I do know what my first meal in the next world would be... Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.
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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
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The marathon always starts after 30K. That's where the problems start. You start without any problems, without any pain. All the pain comes after 30K. Sometimes, it's possible to have pain even in the finger.
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People really don't understand what actors do.
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Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.
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Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.
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A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
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I do understand how hate eats at the soul and how to purge yourself of hate.
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Once you're playing someone, you shouldn't be judging them in any way. That's what being an actor is - it's having empathy for people that are different from yourself. Once you've committed to that person, your responsibility is to tell that story.
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The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.
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I have a wife, a son, and I've had some practical life experience.
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Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history teaches, when there is nothing much to do, you may as well amuse yourself by attacking the Jews.
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It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion.
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Reading is how I became an actor because I didn't grow up in a house where there was an awareness of film or theater. I also grew up in a house full of teachers, so reading was big in our world.
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Some people say it might be good for your career to die and then come back again. I have died many ways, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, etc. But, I am still alive.
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I don't think I'll be doing a lot more commercials.
