Top 117 Quotes by James Nesbitt

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

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

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

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

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

Acting is something you didn't do in Ireland.

'Spoilt' is a euphemism for 'loved.'

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.

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.

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.