I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don’t mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don’t want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.
BILL NIGHYIf 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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I’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
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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.’
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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.
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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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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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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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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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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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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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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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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