I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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 don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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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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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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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 hardly even leave my own house.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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I’m not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don’t give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.
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You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
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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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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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Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.
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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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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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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