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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I'm not very good at standard English.
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Acting is something you didn't do in Ireland.
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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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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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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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My wife is a very strong woman.
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My mother certainly doesn't think I'm charming!
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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 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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Unification is less important than the fact Ireland is now conflict-free.
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Tumours can come out of nowhere.
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Improvising political dialogue is not easy.
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I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.
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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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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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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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I don't think I'll be doing a lot more commercials.
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It's a complicated relationship with the place one grows up in, particularly if it's Northern Ireland.
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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 am in the public eye, and I accept that my actions may be open to question.
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I'm an actor, learning lines and saying them in the right order.
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If you are a Northern Irish actor, maybe subconsciously more than consciously, you do have an instinctive responsibility at some point to tackle the recent history of where we have come from. It's not only a responsibility, but a privilege.
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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.