James Nesbitt Quotes

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James Nesbitt

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 15, 1965

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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I don't think I'll be doing a lot more commercials.

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I do commercials, but I also go to Sudan as an ambassador for UNICEF.

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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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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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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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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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People love watching medical dramas - they also love watching documentaries about the workings of the brain.

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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 started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor.

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When I went to university, I was already working professionally with the Ulster Actors.

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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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When people say, 'You're perceived as a sex symbol,' I love the idea of that because it's so absurd.

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I spend an awful lot of time by myself and enjoy that.

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Producers get very jittery about things.

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My nightmare is that I don't want to be OK.

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It's hard to make a film in Britain. It's hard to raise money. The best stuff that is shot on film in Britain is usually shot on film for television.

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You don't learn charm. It's not something that you can acquire. I have used it much in my life with great success, but it's not necessarily what makes me an actor. It became a very easy label to attach to me. It also feels a bit dismissive. People go, 'You're so lovely and charming', but it's a wee bit, 'That's all you are.'

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Something about theatre perhaps scared me.

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If I get to the end of my life, and people say, 'He was in 'Cold Feet,' well, I was, and it was great. I thought the fourth series wasn't great. I thought there were weak episodes throughout. Overall, I thought it was a good show, it had an impact, it dealt with a lot of issues, and it was a great part.

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