Top 100 Nesbitt Quotes

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

James Nesbitt

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#2. 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.

James Nesbitt

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#3. Supporting drama for young people is close to my heart.

James Nesbitt

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#4. 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 city folk with their iPads and their Android phones.

James Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #104096
#5. I don't think I'm delusional, but I'm definitely a dreamer; I definitely want to see the best in things and I believe in what I do.

Nina Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #108617
#6. My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything you need to know about hard work. My dad is the most decent man you could come across.

James Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #109161
#7. I grew up in leafy suburbs in north and east Belfast, but if I had been born a mile down the road closer to the city centre, you might never heard of me.

Mike Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #122891
#8. My nightmare is that I don't want to be OK.

James Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #130643
#9. Gabriel jokes, "If they find out Blondine got the last of the bread there'll be murder."
Nesbitt says, "If that's true I'll murder her myself.

Sally Green

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#10. I would literally never think about melody. I never thought people listened to melody because I listen to words.

Nina Nesbitt

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#11. 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.

James Nesbitt

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#12. I feel old and vulnerable. I now realise that I knew nothing and know nothing, but back when my career was beginning, I thought I was a man when, in fact, I was a dewy-eyed boy who'd not seen an avocado or eaten a tomato.

James Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #152904
#13. Northern Ireland has treated me well, you know?

James Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #172691
#14. 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.

James Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #176023
#15. 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.

James Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #185456
#16. Acting is something you didn't do in Ireland.

James Nesbitt

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#17. I live in a neighborhood that's very family-oriented, so I feel like everyone else is sleeping and I'm sitting up, making music. It's just me. It's a nice time to be creative.

Nina Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #228181
#18. Belfast is a city which, while not forgetting its past, is living comfortably with its present and looking forward to its future.

James Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #230598
#19. 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.

James Nesbitt

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#20. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

James Nesbitt

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#21. No one wanted to own Bloody Sunday.

James Nesbitt

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#22. 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.

James Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #323796
#23. 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.

James Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #328199
#24. When I used to write songs, especially on my own, it was just me and a guitar.

Nina Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #364240
#25. Tumours can come out of nowhere.

James Nesbitt

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#26. I grew up loving women and without misogyny, rancour or prejudice, totally loved and loving. And no matter what has happened since, I don't think I have treated women in my life very badly.

James Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #376411
#27. When people say, 'You're perceived as a sex symbol,' I love the idea of that because it's so absurd.

James Nesbitt

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#28. I spend my money on holidays and eating out, and it allows me to be generous.

James Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #423784
#29. Sometimes when I'm writing a song I'll get carried away with production when I'm only on the first verse, and that sacrifices the songwriting.

Nina Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #431407
#30. I actually started out on the stage as a singer.

James Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #439177
#31. I'm not very good at standard English.

James Nesbitt

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#32. 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.

James Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #488031
#33. Traveling really inspires me, seeing other cities and going on tour. If you've got fans online, it's hard to remember those people are real people.

Nina Nesbitt

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#34. I didn't much like Las Vegas. The noise of the place and the whole 24-hour, 'let's play the slot machines all night' culture of the place just left me cold.

James Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #489854
#35. Moving to London was a culture shock, but in a really good way. I'm more aware now, and I'm less trusting of people in the music industry.

Nina Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #518386
#36. When you're brought up in a Unionist culture, you can't help but feel Unionist.

James Nesbitt

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

James Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #532450
#38. I've got a history in my life of difficult times.

James Nesbitt

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#39. Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.

James Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #564158
#40. The thing to remember is that the work comes first, and not to get distracted by anything else. If you keep focused on the work, everything else will fall into place. That's my mantra now.

James Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #585332
#41. My wife is a very strong woman.

James Nesbitt

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#42. I really struggle to get up in the morning, but I also get my best ideas really late at night, when I'm trying to sleep.

Nina Nesbitt

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#43. Like the character I played in 'Jekyll', we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to lead decent lives, we're also attracted by the idea that something dark may lurk within us.

James Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #621018
#44. The really big challenge is delivering the social justice agenda in the Belfast Agreement, which hasn't been delivered.

Mike Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #625589
#45. I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke.

James Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #631520
#46. I do commercials, but I also go to Sudan as an ambassador for UNICEF.

James Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #638320
#47. When you suddenly become successful, the change is enormous, both financially and in terms of recognition and the way people treat you. I found that hard to deal with. I got very guilty about it, and I think I put up obstacles to prevent myself enjoying it.

James Nesbitt

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#48. I never forget that I'm extremely fortunate.

James Nesbitt

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#49. New Zealand is a place where you can get well.

James Nesbitt

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#50. The whole process of making 'Bloody Sunday' was difficult but extraordinary.

James Nesbitt

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#51. Although surgeons know how to deal with bits of the brain, they don't really know how it works.

James Nesbitt

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#52. My agent Sue realised after 'Cold Feet' that I could have spent the rest of my life doing similar roles. So she was instrumental in moving me away from that.

James Nesbitt

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#53. 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.

James Nesbitt

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#54. Because I grew up with women, I have a certain amount of charm, and I'm all right to get on with, kind enough, funny enough, blah blah blah.

James Nesbitt

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#55. As fabulous as technology is, it can also make us very anxious.

James Nesbitt

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#56. 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.

James Nesbitt

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#57. It's easier to act in your own accent.

James Nesbitt

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#58. I think a lot of us who grew up in Northern Ireland weren't politicised enough, frankly.

James Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #834014
#59. I'm Ulster Presbyterian. We understand the need to work hard from an early age.

James Nesbitt

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#60. Nothing makes me happier than writing a song that I think is good or that I want to play. Writing songs helps me.

Nina Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #853536
#61. I am in the public eye, and I accept that my actions may be open to question.

James Nesbitt

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#62. 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.

James Nesbitt

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#63. I want to beat up Michael Fassbender in a movie. I was with him at the beginning of his career when he did an episode of 'Murphy's Law.' He's a proper superstar and enormously talented, but I want to do a scene where I properly duff him up.

James Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #895047
#64. There's no such thing as unwanted attention for an actor.

James Nesbitt

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#65. Something about theatre perhaps scared me.

James Nesbitt

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#66. 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.

James Nesbitt

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#67. I'm not an actor who is often asked to be in period things.

James Nesbitt

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#68. I did a lot of theatre when I started out. It was the Lyceum, the Citz, the Tron and the Traverse. I came to London and did the Royal Court, the National, 'King Lear' at the Manchester Royal Exchange. I did little bits of comedy, like 'Rab C Nesbitt,' but I wasn't predominantly about comedy.

Ashley Jensen

Nesbitt Quotes #964486
#69. He says in a strong German accent, "Half and half, eh?"
Nesbitt laughs. "You got that right: half human, half animal."
Gabriel says, "And always pissed off - though I can't imagine why when he's in your company, Nesbitt.

Sally Green

Nesbitt Quotes #979809
#70. I think teaching should be a vocation, and they should be paid more for it.

James Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #994167
#71. Improvising political dialogue is not easy.

James Nesbitt

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#72. Ever since I left Northern Ireland, I've always been pretty comfortable on my own, which contradicts a lot of people's perceptions of me.

James Nesbitt

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#73. As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.'

James Nesbitt

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#74. 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.

James Nesbitt

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

James Nesbitt

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#76. While I've never 'phoned in' a performance, I think I have given some performances where I could have been a bit braver.

James Nesbitt

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#77. Funnily enough, Northern Ireland is a great example of where politics can win over conflict. The decision to down arms and follow a political path would have been unthinkable once. It shows just what is possible.

James Nesbitt

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#78. 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.

James Nesbitt

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#79. 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 history in school.

James Nesbitt

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#80. 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.

James Nesbitt

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#81. It's ridiculous, but it's horrible going bald. Anyone who says it isn't is lying.

James Nesbitt

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#82. I'd be a very easy therapist's subject.

James Nesbitt

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

James Nesbitt

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

James Nesbitt

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#85. I cannot imagine any circumstances under which David McNarry would be back in the Ulster Unionist Assembly group of MLAs when I have control of the whip.

Mike Nesbitt

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

James Nesbitt

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#87. 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 would have been that it would be terribly anti-Britain and anti-soldiers: a piece of nationalist propaganda.

James Nesbitt

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#88. 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.

James Nesbitt

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#89. Kids at a certain age don't necessarily want to be dragged to the other side of the world.

James Nesbitt

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#90. When you go on tour and see everyone, you're like, "Oh my god. This is actually real life." That inspires me to write more songs.

Nina Nesbitt

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#91. I'd like to live in an area of social deprivation because I think it's important to get a feel of what it's like.

Mike Nesbitt

Nesbitt Quotes #1199721
#92. Unification is less important than the fact Ireland is now conflict-free.

James Nesbitt

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

James Nesbitt

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#94. Several years ago, I began losing my hair, and like a lot of men, it was a major concern to me, in fact it was practically an obsession. But, also I'm an actor, so I'm in the public eye a lot and I really felt that my hair loss could affect my career prospects.

James Nesbitt

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#95. I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my soul.

James Nesbitt

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#96. People don't watch TV only to relate to stuff. They also watch to find out about a world they can't relate to.

James Nesbitt

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#97. 'Spoilt' is a euphemism for 'loved.'

James Nesbitt

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#98. become great friends with Grandmother.' Mrs Nesbitt informs me, in her sweet, winsome way, that it is extremely important for a woman in her position to have her own life and her own circle of friends. She would not, she adds, be averse to marrying again.

Tracy Rees

Nesbitt Quotes #1331289
#99. Martin Freeman as [Bilbo] is just a revelation.

James Nesbitt

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#100. What did I do? I walked into a drugstore to look for some mints, and then I walked out. What was wrong with that? I didn't kill Mr. Nesbitt.

Walter Dean Myers

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