I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, “Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true.” I like those kinds of backgrounds.
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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So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines – technical things which are important, but I don’t think they change the way I feel in a scene.
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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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My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
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I’m not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don’t need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who’s been a father would be able to act.
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I’m not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don’t give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.
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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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It’s more than usually possible that I won’t do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language.
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Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
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The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
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I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I’ve never needed a computer. I’m lucky that I have a job where I’m not required to use one.
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I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
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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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Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
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I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn’t operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it’s actually also true – if I want to appear in public I want to look my best.
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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With stage, you feel completely like you’re just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can’t see anything because the lights are so bright and it’s pitch black. That’s ideal for me, that’s when I have the best time.
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As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
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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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I’ve always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I’m an actor, but felt sorry for me because they’d never seen anything I’ve done.
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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
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I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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