In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call ‘good manners,’ sometimes people don’t quite believe you. I’ve had that once or twice before, where they assume you can’t be for real.
BILL NIGHYI don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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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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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said ‘What play was that?’ and he said ‘It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.’
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You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
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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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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 guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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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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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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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’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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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 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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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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