James Nesbitt Quotes

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James Nesbitt

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 15, 1965

The best way of enjoying your money is to spend it on other people. I don't need much.

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Acting is something you didn't do in Ireland.

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I think teaching should be a vocation, and they should be paid more for it.

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I actually started out on the stage as a singer.

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I have three older sisters who, when we were children, used to hold me down on a bad day and put make-up all over me, so I've had an aversion to it all my life and hate sitting down in the make-up chair.

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My wife would say I'm more Hyde than Jekyll!

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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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Love your parents, but don't have them as your mates.

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I love nothing more than going to eat by myself with a newspaper.

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I've always been a family man and count myself as one of those who are lucky to have the comfort of a family.

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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 a brilliant time. Everyone thinks I must have been unhappy.

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Acting was a godsend. I found myself because I loved acting.

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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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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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Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.

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I'm an actor, learning lines and saying them in the right order.

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I'm Ulster Presbyterian. We understand the need to work hard from an early age.

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Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they tend to remember their failures rather than their successes, and that must be very hard. Who do you share that failure with? That's why their personal lives are often disastrous.

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Northern Ireland has treated me well, you know?

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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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