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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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I'm an actor, learning lines and saying them in the right order.
James Nesbitt
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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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I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from the Troubles.
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I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke.
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Improvising political dialogue is not easy.
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We have to get behind the scientists and push for a dementia breakthrough. It could be that we fear dementia out of a sense of hopelessness, but there is hope, and it rests in the hands of our scientists.
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There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.
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I actually started out on the stage as a singer.
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'Spoilt' is a euphemism for 'loved.'
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I don't think I'll be doing a lot more commercials.
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My nightmare is that I don't want to be OK.
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Producers get very jittery about things.
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There will only ever be 13 dwarves in 'The Hobbit' - and I was one of them. If I had my time again, would I do it? Yeah, I would.
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New Zealand is a place where you can get well.
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I never forget that I'm extremely fortunate.
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I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.
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I think teaching should be a vocation, and they should be paid more for it.
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While I've never 'phoned in' a performance, I think I have given some performances where I could have been a bit braver.
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In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.
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