Irish - Actor | January 15, 1965 -
My early ambitions were the same as they are now - to play for Manchester United. I was, and still am, football mad.
James Nesbitt
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I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor.
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When I went to university, I was already working professionally with the Ulster Actors.
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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.
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When people say, 'You're perceived as a sex symbol,' I love the idea of that because it's so absurd.
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I spend an awful lot of time by myself and enjoy that.
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Producers get very jittery about things.
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My best friends are still the ones I first attached myself to when I went to school because, all of a sudden, I was leaving the rather pampered and occasionally very annoying world of having three older sisters to go to a male-dominated world.
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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.
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It's easier to act in your own accent.
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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.'
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Something about theatre perhaps scared me.
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