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’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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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 have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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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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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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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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 have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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I don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
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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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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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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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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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