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It's easier to act in your own accent. James Nesbitt
Own Easier Accent Act Your
You don't learn charm. It's not something that you can acquire. I have used it much in my life with great success, but it's not necessarily what makes me an actor. It became a very easy label to attach to me. It also feels a bit dismissive. People go, 'You're so lovely and charming', but it's a wee bit, 'That's all you are.' James Nesbitt
Life Success Great Me You People My Life Bit Easy Charm Something Charming Attach Wee Feels Great Success Also Learn Became Makes Go Label Very Lovely Acquire Much Used Actor Necessarily
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
Life Good Great People Thought My Life Cold Say Weak Impact People Say Great Part Throughout Had He Part Feet Overall Well Dealt Issues Were Lot End Get Episodes Show Series Fourth
When you're brought up in a Unionist culture, you can't help but feel Unionist. James Nesbitt
You Culture Brought Feel Up Help Unionist
The whole process of making 'Bloody Sunday' was difficult but extraordinary. James Nesbitt
Sunday Difficult Extraordinary Making Bloody Process Whole
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
Saying Me People School Pupils Must Coming Been Lot Up Get Awful Awful Lot
It's easy to get carried away with yourself. James Nesbitt
Yourself Carried Easy Get Away
When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best. James Nesbitt
God Best Gift Thought Few Own Pain Bit Backside My Own Voice Disappeared Taking Since Became Because Greatest George Hear Years Years Ago Off Up Irishman Did Egomaniac While Mankind Fully Film Neck Career
I am in the public eye, and I accept that my actions may be open to question. James Nesbitt
Eye Open Accept Am Question May Public Public Eye Actions
I'm no pin-up. James Nesbitt
Pin-Up
There's no such thing as unwanted attention for an actor. James Nesbitt
Unwanted Attention Actor Thing
Acting is something you didn't do in Ireland. James Nesbitt
You Something Ireland Acting
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
Life Day Me Hate Bad Day Three My Life Down Older All My Life Bad Had Put Over Were Sisters Sitting Children Hold Aversion Used Who Chair
Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves. James Nesbitt
Fall Distance Bits Some Category Parts Themselves Use Who Actor Play
Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves. James Nesbitt
Needs Darkness Crime Imagination Our Way Ourselves Some Perhaps Stories Craving Fulfill
I'm an actor, learning lines and saying them in the right order. James Nesbitt
Saying Learning Lines Order Them Actor Right
Northern Ireland has treated me well, you know? James Nesbitt
Me You Know Well Ireland Northern Northern Ireland Treated
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
Think Bit Some Given Could Never Performance Been Braver Where While
Kids at a certain age don't necessarily want to be dragged to the other side of the world. James Nesbitt
Age World Other Side Kids Want Certain Certain Age Necessarily Dragged
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
Life History You Reality School Catholic Learned Protestant Were Ireland Irish Northern Northern Ireland British
Improvising political dialogue is not easy. James Nesbitt
Political Easy Dialogue Improvising
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
People Fear Sunday Our Background Would Would-Be Propaganda About Piece Terribly Protestant Been Lot Very Bloody Nationalist Suspicious Notion Film
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
Phones People Simple Living Android Folk City Seem Over Remote Countryside iPads Discovered Lot Ireland Than Sea Lives
If men understood domestic economy half as well as women do, then their political economy and their entire consequent statecraft would not be the futil muddle which it is. James Stephens
Women Political Men Half Would Entire Economy Well Understood Political Economy Domestic Which Then Muddle Consequent
A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an inside without an outside. James Stephens
Bird Rose Inside Pot Wing Outside Like Perfume Without Gold
To ask questions can become the laziest and wobbliest occupation of a mind, but when you must yourself answer the problem that you have posed, you will meditate your question with care and frame it with precision. James Stephens
You Yourself Problem Care Mind Will Become Frame Must Occupation Answer Question Questions Precision Ask Your Meditate
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