James Nesbitt Quotes

My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.

If 'The Hobbit' happens - and there's reason to believe that it will - then I think I'm in with a chance! Gollum is very much part of 'The Hobbit,' after all.

My first film as an actor was 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' a glorious experience that spoiled me for future films.

I was a boss on 'Cavemen.' That was portentous.

I do a lot of teen shows and voice over work for animation, so when I got the part in 'The Number 23,' it was really cool because now I get to be in a movie with Jim Carrey. Acting in this movie was really a learning experience for me.

'The Hobbit's a big gig. It's a huge circus that you become a part of.

You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.

The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

If someone asked me to be in a movie, I'd be more than happy.

Living in New Zealand, that's something that you'd like to do as an actor, but very rarely do you get an opportunity to get such a good springboard as 'The Hobbit' to help you get international work.

I think of 'The Hobbit' as more like a boy's own film, like those annuals from the 1930s and 1940s.

Everybody knows about Peter Jackson, 'The Hobbit' movies and 'The Lord of the Rings' films being made in New Zealand, and to actually have been part of it for such a long period, to live there and to have friends that I will have for life because of that experience, is an amazing thing.

I've never felt a strong urge to rush into Hollywood, so I bided my time and waited till I had a decent body of work to show people, the icing on the cake being 'Salmon Fishing' and 'Parade's End.'

If I'm made to pick one transcendent reading experience, then it was listening to Miss Sarzin as - if we'd been very, very good - she read the next chapter of 'The Hobbit' aloud to us.

I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.

Yes well I've done three movies with Samuel L. Jackson, so I've met him a couple of times already. Well, I see him everyday, but its only on the screen.

Directors have been trying to get me to do comedy for a long time, ever since 'One Eight Seven.'

I grew up actually reading 'The Hobbit,' not 'The Lord of the Rings.' I loved 'The Hobbit' growing up.

While growing up, I always wanted to see myself on the big screen - more so because there were no laptops then, and viewing on mobile was a far-fetched dream.

I got to work alongside Alexandra Shipp, who plays Storm in 'X-Men: Apocalypse', so that was really cool for me.

I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size

Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.

It was great. I got to hang out with him [Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins], and I kept a straight face for a bit and then I started giggling because I know Martin, I don't know Bilbo. For Martin to be sitting there playing Bilbo is amazing. He's going to be amazing, he's going to be fantastic in this film.

When I was nine years old, I was in a movie called, 'Landlord' with Pearl Bailey, Lou Gossett, and Beau Bridges.

Mother was engaged briefly to Richard Burton years ago and did a tiny part with him in the film 'Jackpot.'