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I actually started out on the stage as a singer.

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

James Nesbitt

As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.'

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I am in the public eye, and I accept that my actions may be open to question.

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I've got a history in my life of difficult times.

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I think a lot of us who grew up in Northern Ireland weren't politicised enough, frankly.

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When you see a tumour in the brain, it's an ugly looking thing. It's kind of black, grisly and messy. Or it can be white. To see it taken away is just amazing.

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People don't watch TV only to relate to stuff. They also watch to find out about a world they can't relate to.

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Like the character I played in 'Jekyll', we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to lead decent lives, we're also attracted by the idea that something dark may lurk within us.

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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.

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We have to get behind the scientists and push for a dementia breakthrough. It could be that we fear dementia out of a sense of hopelessness, but there is hope, and it rests in the hands of our scientists.

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I think often there is great rivalry between neurosurgeons and cardiac surgeons. I think I maybe have a bit of bias with neurosurgeons' opinion that nothing tops neurosurgery! But that makes for a quite interesting conflict between the two.

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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.

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Funnily enough, Northern Ireland is a great example of where politics can win over conflict. The decision to down arms and follow a political path would have been unthinkable once. It shows just what is possible.

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I'm an actor, learning lines and saying them in the right order.

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Ours was a very progressive Protestant family, but my parents were God-loving rather than God-fearing. We went to church, and I still go with my mum and dad when I return home - it's a family thing. I played flute in my dad's marching band, but I had an integrated upbringing. We had a lot of Catholic friends.

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The best way of enjoying your money is to spend it on other people. I don't need much.

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Unification is less important than the fact Ireland is now conflict-free.

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If you are a Northern Irish actor, maybe subconsciously more than consciously, you do have an instinctive responsibility at some point to tackle the recent history of where we have come from. It's not only a responsibility, but a privilege.

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I actually started out on the stage as a singer.

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Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.

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

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When I went to university, I was already working professionally with the Ulster Actors.

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I want to beat up Michael Fassbender in a movie. I was with him at the beginning of his career when he did an episode of 'Murphy's Law.' He's a proper superstar and enormously talented, but I want to do a scene where I properly duff him up.

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Supporting drama for young people is close to my heart.

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I think teaching should be a vocation, and they should be paid more for it.

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Northern Ireland has treated me well, you know?

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Something about theatre perhaps scared me.

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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.

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I'm Ulster Presbyterian. We understand the need to work hard from an early age.

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My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything you need to know about hard work. My dad is the most decent man you could come across.

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I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.

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

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

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Brain surgery is a fairly aggressive process. There's a lot to get through. There's the beautiful, delicate shaving first, which is really lovely. There's a wonderful ceremony of putting all the covers on, so only the little bit you're operating on is revealed. But once they make the incision and tear the skin back, the drill comes out.

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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.

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As I flew back from New Zealand to bury my mother, it occurred to me that no matter how harrowing her loss was and how keenly it will always be felt, there was, nevertheless, a sense of relief that my father, sisters and I could say a final goodbye after the longest goodbye and relief that my mum had finally been released.

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