A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It’s a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.
BILL NIGHYOne of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.
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All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
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I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.
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I don’t even own a car.
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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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I don’t do plays without jokes anymore. I’ve retired from those plays. I think it’s bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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If I’m onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.
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I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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