James Nesbitt Quotes
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Ours was a very progressive Protestant family, but my parents were God-loving rather than God-fearing. We went to church, and I still go with my mum and dad when I return home - it's a family thing. I played flute in my dad's marching band, but I had an integrated upbringing. We had a lot of Catholic friends.
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When I turned 40, subconsciously, life was a blank sheet. Before, it was disjointed, and I was very displaced and quite mad, but it was a brilliant time. Everyone thinks I must have been unhappy.
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I loved my time growing up in Northern Ireland doing youth drama, that is where it all began for me.
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I'd be a very easy therapist's subject.
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Kids at a certain age don't necessarily want to be dragged to the other side of the world.
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I'm not an actor who is often asked to be in period things.
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My early ambitions were the same as they are now - to play for Manchester United. I was, and still am, football mad.
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I'm not very good at standard English.
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I think often there is great rivalry between neurosurgeons and cardiac surgeons. I think I maybe have a bit of bias with neurosurgeons' opinion that nothing tops neurosurgery! But that makes for a quite interesting conflict between the two.
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My agent Sue realised after 'Cold Feet' that I could have spent the rest of my life doing similar roles. So she was instrumental in moving me away from that.
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Because I grew up with women, I have a certain amount of charm, and I'm all right to get on with, kind enough, funny enough, blah blah blah.
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As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.'
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I have three older sisters who, when we were children, used to hold me down on a bad day and put make-up all over me, so I've had an aversion to it all my life and hate sitting down in the make-up chair.
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When you're brought up in a Unionist culture, you can't help but feel Unionist.
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My wife is a very strong woman.
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People love watching medical dramas - they also love watching documentaries about the workings of the brain.
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It's easier to act in your own accent.
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Richard Armitage is very good at the old horse riding because of course he did it in 'Robin Hood,' so he's very good at that.
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My preference is for good writing. It doesn't matter if it's for film or TV. Whatever. It starts with the writing. Even though I've had problems with writers, it doesn't matter how great of an actor you are. If the writing is bad, you're going to struggle.
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Something about theatre perhaps scared me.
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Acting is something you didn't do in Ireland.
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Unification is less important than the fact Ireland is now conflict-free.
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I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds.
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I think a lot of us who grew up in Northern Ireland weren't politicised enough, frankly.