I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor.
From James Nesbitt
When I went to university, I was already working professionally with the Ulster Actors.
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.
When people say, 'You're perceived as a sex symbol,' I love the idea of that because it's so absurd.
I spend an awful lot of time by myself and enjoy that.
Producers get very jittery about things.
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.
My nightmare is that I don't want to be OK.
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.
It's easier to act in your own accent.
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