I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
BILL NIGHYI 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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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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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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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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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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If you ask any actor “What single thing would make you really, really happy?” Among the top five things they’d say is not having to audition anymore.
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In one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it’s not just an attempt at naturalism. It’s stylised and it’s heightened, to great effect. It’s elegant and it’s funny and that’s the way to my heart, frankly.
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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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When you are in something that you’re proud of and it’s funny and it’s a good night out and all of those things, there’s nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.
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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’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, ‘
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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 have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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