130 Quotes by James Nesbitt

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

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.

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.

I’ve heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke.

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

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.

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

I never forget that I’m extremely fortunate.

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.