James Nesbitt Quotes
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People love watching medical dramas - they also love watching documentaries about the workings of the brain.
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The best way of enjoying your money is to spend it on other people. I don't need much.
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I'm not an actor who is often asked to be in period things.
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As I flew back from New Zealand to bury my mother, it occurred to me that no matter how harrowing her loss was and how keenly it will always be felt, there was, nevertheless, a sense of relief that my father, sisters and I could say a final goodbye after the longest goodbye and relief that my mum had finally been released.
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My mother certainly doesn't think I'm charming!
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I'm increasingly realising our consciousness and subconsciousness are extremely different, and our subconsciousness motivates us, but so far, I don't know what drove or motivates me.
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Unification is less important than the fact Ireland is now conflict-free.
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When I was at drama school, I was totally broke, and a lot of my mates had jobs and were financially very good to me, so if, for example, I take them away on a trip to a football match in Europe, it means that I can pay them back a bit.
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Actually, I played Pontius Pilate as nice. An actor spends his life thinking he is Christ, and then he gets to play the character that killed him.
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Acting is something you didn't do in Ireland.
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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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My wife is a very strong woman.
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Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.
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Perhaps not being very self-aware in the past masked depression. I think I was confused. I think I was immature. I think I probably was quite depressed.
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I'm an actor, learning lines and saying them in the right order.
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Brain surgery is a fairly aggressive process. There's a lot to get through. There's the beautiful, delicate shaving first, which is really lovely. There's a wonderful ceremony of putting all the covers on, so only the little bit you're operating on is revealed. But once they make the incision and tear the skin back, the drill comes out.
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Improvising political dialogue is not easy.
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Tumours can come out of nowhere.
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I am in the public eye, and I accept that my actions may be open to question.
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I don't think I'll be doing a lot more commercials.
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No one wanted to own Bloody Sunday.
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When you see a tumour in the brain, it's an ugly looking thing. It's kind of black, grisly and messy. Or it can be white. To see it taken away is just amazing.
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That thing of briefly losing sight of a child happened to me when the kids were younger, and you can't see them in the supermarket or wherever. It's a terrible, terrible moment... the most unimaginable horror.
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It's a complicated relationship with the place one grows up in, particularly if it's Northern Ireland.