Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: ‘What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.’
BILL NIGHYI guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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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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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining ’cause she doesn’t want to go to sleep.
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The job is the same – to attempt to make it sound like you’ve never said it before and as if it’s just occurred to you. And that’s the same whether you’re on camera or whether you’re on stage in a room full of people.
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I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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They’re at their most enchanting ’cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, “Please don’t let this end.”
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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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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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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.
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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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’m not famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script.
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I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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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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