One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
BILL NIGHYI like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.
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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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When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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 did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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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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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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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 don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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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 don’t think there’s an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It’s just that you’re standing up.
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