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, ‘
BILL NIGHYI find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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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If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
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I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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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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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
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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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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 a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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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 don’t even own a car.
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I’m not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don’t need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who’s been a father would be able to act.
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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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