I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, “Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true.” I like those kinds of backgrounds.
BILL NIGHYI used to do nothing but plays. I’ve been very fortunate that on several occasions I’ve had jobs where I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer – however much money you’ve got
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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 do plays without jokes anymore. I’ve retired from those plays. I think it’s bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
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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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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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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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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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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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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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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I hardly even leave my own house.
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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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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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 used to do nothing but plays. I’ve been very fortunate that on several occasions I’ve had jobs where I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer – however much money you’ve got
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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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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 generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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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 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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Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
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Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
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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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I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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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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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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