130 Quotes by James Nesbitt

Acting is something you didn't do in Ireland.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

It's easier to act in your own accent.

It's a complicated relationship with the place one grows up in, particularly if it's Northern Ireland.