I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
BILL NIGHYI 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.
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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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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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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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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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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 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.
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There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
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I’m a jacket man. And if I’m without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don’t know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
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I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I’ve been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I’d go back to my younger self and say, “Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don’t be so anxious about everything.
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Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
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In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.
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I used to do nothing but plays. I’ve been very fortunate that on several occasions I’ve had jobs where I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer – however much money you’ve got
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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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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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One 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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