Nesbitt Quotes & Sayings

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

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

It's easier to act in your own accent. — James Nesbitt

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

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

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. — James Nesbitt

The really big challenge is delivering the social justice agenda in the Belfast Agreement, which hasn't been delivered. — Mike Nesbitt

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's ridiculous, but it's horrible going bald. Anyone who says it isn't is lying. — James Nesbitt

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

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

When I was growing up, Belfast City Hall was surrounded by security, and we had no access to it. But now, people come in and out of it all the time. On a nice day, office workers and students sit on the lawn outside and have lunch. It's great to see how Northern Ireland has changed. To be part of that is fantastic. — James Nesbitt

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

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

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

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

Lady Sylvia McCordle: Mr Weissman
Tell us about the film you're going to make.
Morris Weissman: Oh, sure. It's called "Charlie Chan In London". It's a detective story.
Mabel Nesbitt: Set in London?
Morris Weissman: Well, not really. Most of it takes place at a shooting party in a country house. Sort of like this one, actually. Murder in the middle of the night, a lot of guests for the weekend, everyone's a suspect. You know, that sort of thing.
Constance: How horrid. And who turns out to have done it?
Morris Weissman: Oh, I couldn't tell you that. It would spoil it for you.
Constance: Oh, but none of us will see it. — Julian Fellowes

I actually started out on the stage as a singer. — James Nesbitt

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

As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.' — James Nesbitt

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

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

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

'Spoilt' is a euphemism for 'loved.' — James Nesbitt

I'm not very good at standard English. — James Nesbitt

Acting is something you didn't do in Ireland. — James Nesbitt

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

No one wanted to own Bloody Sunday. — James Nesbitt

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

Drama asks some uncomfortable questions at times ... It goes to pretty dark places. — James Nesbitt

Theatres, along with the likes of the Ulster Orchestra, for example, are the cultural heartbeats of our towns and cities, and without them, we are much poorer for it. — James Nesbitt

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

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

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

Belfast is a city which, while not forgetting its past, is living comfortably with its present and looking forward to its future. — James Nesbitt

I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best. — James Nesbitt

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

I am in the public eye, and I accept that my actions may be open to question. — James Nesbitt

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

I'd be a very easy therapist's subject. — James Nesbitt

I never forget that I'm extremely fortunate. — James Nesbitt

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

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

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

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

Kids at a certain age don't necessarily want to be dragged to the other side of the world. — James Nesbitt

Homework, I Love You
Homework, I love you. I think that you're great.
It's wonderful fun when you keep me up late.
I think you're the best when I'm totally stressed,
preparing and cramming all night for a test.
Homework, I love you. What more can I say?
I love to do hundreds of problems each day.
You boggle my mind and you make me go blind,
but still I'm ecstatic that you were assigned.
Homework, I love you. I tell you, it's true.
There's nothing more fun or exciting to do.
You're never a chore, for it's you I adore.
I wish that our teacher would hand you out more.
Homework, I love you. You thrill me inside.
I'm filled with emotions. I'm fit to be tied.
I cannot complain when you frazzle my brain.
Of course, that's because I'm completely insane. — Kenn Nesbitt

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

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

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

On a beautiful clear Sunday morning, myself and James Nesbitt jumped out of a plane together at 18,000 feet. — Aidan Turner

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

When you're brought up in a Unionist culture, you can't help but feel Unionist. — James Nesbitt

You can get a bit world-weary in this job, and 'The Passion' reminded me of what a fantastic job acting is and how lucky I am to be doing it. — James Nesbitt

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. — James Nesbitt

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

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 school! — James Nesbitt

It's easy to get carried away with yourself. — James Nesbitt

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

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

I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke. — James Nesbitt

I'm not an actor who is often asked to be in period things. — James Nesbitt

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. — James Nesbitt

I've got a history in my life of difficult times. — James Nesbitt

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

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

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

Something about theatre perhaps scared me. — James Nesbitt

In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it. — James Nesbitt

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

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. — James Nesbitt

I went to India with UNICEF in connection with Manchester United to raise money for children's education. — James Nesbitt

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

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

Unification is less important than the fact Ireland is now conflict-free. — James Nesbitt

When you see a tumour in the brain, it's an ugly looking thing. It's kind of black, grisly and messy. Or it can be white. To see it taken away is just amazing. — James Nesbitt

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

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

Producers get very jittery about things. — James Nesbitt

Working with other people, it's hard to get them to make it sound like what you have in mind. Also, it's really expensive to get your tracks produced, so I thought if I could learn how to do it myself, I could make five albums in a month and it would be free, it would be me, and it would be everything that I'm doing. — Nina Nesbitt

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. — James Nesbitt

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

Improvising political dialogue is not easy. — James Nesbitt

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

All my adult life, there was the Troubles. That was the backdrop of my life. — James Nesbitt

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

You have interrupted me four times, Mr. Cramer. My tolerance is not infinite. You would say, of course, that the message would not be published, and in good faith, but your good faith isn't enough. No doubt Mrs. Nesbitt was assured that her name wouldn't become known, but it did. So I reserve the message. I was about to say, it wouldn't help you to find your murderer. Except for that one immaterial detail, you know all that I know, now that you have reached my client. As for what Mrs. Valdon hired me to do, that's manifest. I engaged to find the mother of the baby. They have been at that, and that alone, for more than three weeks - Mr. Goodwin, Mr. Panzer, Mr. Durkin, and Mr. Cather. You ask if I'm blocked. I am. I'm at my wit's end. — Rex Stout

Ours was a very progressive Protestant family, but my parents were God-loving rather than God-fearing. We went to church, and I still go with my mum and dad when I return home - it's a family thing. I played flute in my dad's marching band, but I had an integrated upbringing. We had a lot of Catholic friends. — James Nesbitt

Acting was a godsend. I found myself because I loved acting. — James Nesbitt

As fabulous as technology is, it can also make us very anxious. — James Nesbitt

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

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

I've always thought hard-boiled detective novels an American art form. At their best, they're more than who-dun-its or thrillers, they're vehicles for a writer's observations about culture, politics, philosophy, music, history and a time or a place. Or life, it's ownself. When you read James Ellroy, Dashiell Hammett or James Lee Burke, their stories are always about far more than good guys chasing bad guys. That's the kind of book I wanted to write. Still do. — Jim Nesbitt

If you are going to tell a story about a child going missing, it's going to have similarities with a real life child going missing. — James Nesbitt

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