James Nesbitt Quotes

I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death.

With every interview you feel like you lose a piece of yourself, and with every bad review you become just that little bit more bitter. It is horrible in a way.

I love this profession, but God, it can just destroy people, and I don't want that to happen and become some monster.

I did grieve a bit when I wasn't having the chemo anymore. I was used to sitting in the little chair and then the nurse would come and do it. It was like that was your job for that long and it was reassuring.

Post-traumatic stress disorder didn't surface as a condition until 1980... that fact was very relevant when I remember back to how these men behaved. A lot of walking on eggshells was required for wives and children.

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

Sit down, man. You're a bloody tragedy.

You shouldn't vent and open up to your husband, your boyfriend, your friend, because they're not professionals; they don't know the right thing to say to you, and putting them in that position is tricky. You have to look at it from their standpoint. It's so much pressure.

Revolutionaries were depressed and close to emotional breakdown; after the failure, they left successively.

Through my fans and my children, my wife, just good people, I'm coping.

No one's career is full of highs. Somewhere down the line you are going to get kicked where it hurts and it's how you deal with that.

I'm extremely lucky to be doing what I'm doing right now and I work very hard at maintaining this career and living this dream that I'm living, but there's also a price to pay. I mean, we give a lot of ourselves and every day.

My life out of the ring caught up with me.

The business has taken a toll on me.

You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.

What do you do when you don't know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than in any other profession.

The drama takes a toll on you.

It was hard not to feel violated [in Stone movie], 'cause I have to go home after walking in these shoes all day. It plays a number on your head. Some days I came home and was really upset; it was hard to see the baby [Jovovich's 2-year-old daughter].

The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking.

Stress is the worst thing. That's the ultimate demise of any good thing.

I tried carrying the weight of the world. But I only have two hands.

I actually feel quite sorry for Hillary Clinton as a person because I see someone who is eaten alive by their ambitions, tormented literally to the point where they become sick; they faint as a result of [the reaction] to their ambitions.

The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers in New York and I couldn't decide which one to jumo into.

Fate is trying to kill me. I miss my dog. What's a doctor going to say? You're not ill, you're mad as a muffin? They'll either lock me up or tell me to get a grip and no one will believe the truth anyway.

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get.