All James Nesbitt Quotes
- My early ambitions were the same as they are now - to play for Manchester United. I was, and still am, football mad. Ambition
- I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor. Actor
- I get an awful lot of people coming up and saying they went to school with me. There must have been 80,000 pupils at that… Awful
- I am in the public eye, and I accept that my actions may be open to question. Accept
- Tumours can come out of nowhere. Nowhere
- I think teaching should be a vocation, and they should be paid more for it. More
- I actually started out on the stage as a singer. Actually Started
- Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves. Actor
- I love nothing more than going to eat by myself with a newspaper. Eat
- 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… Been
- Acting was a godsend. I found myself because I loved acting. Acting
- Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves. Assuage
- Northern Ireland has treated me well, you know? Ireland
- 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… Behind
- Belfast is a city which, while not forgetting its past, is living comfortably with its present and looking forward to its future. Belfast
- Unification is less important than the fact Ireland is now conflict-free. Conflict
- As fabulous as technology is, it can also make us very anxious. Anxious
- Supporting drama for young people is close to my heart. Close
- I loved my time growing up in Northern Ireland doing youth drama, that is where it all began for me. All
- No one wanted to own Bloody Sunday. Bloody
- The reality of life in Northern Ireland is that if you were Protestant, you learned British history, and if you were Catholic, you learned Irish… British
- Improvising political dialogue is not easy. Dialogue
- All my adult life, there was the Troubles. That was the backdrop of my life. Adult
- A lot of people of my Ulster Protestant background would have been very suspicious of the notion of a film about Bloody Sunday. Our fear… Anti
- What I discovered all over Ireland is that people living simple lives by the sea or in the remote countryside seem a lot calmer than… All