I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
BILL NIGHYMy dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
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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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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 don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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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 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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It’s more than usually possible that I won’t do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language.
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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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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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All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
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A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It’s a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.
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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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As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
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I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I’ve never needed a computer. I’m lucky that I have a job where I’m not required to use one.
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I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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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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