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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.

Bill Nighy

I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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Bed might Very Good
I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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Generally People Proud
I’m just aware of what I’m thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium.
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Auditorium Feelings Important Thinking
If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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Going Looks People
Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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Adorable Lovely
Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you’ve had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you’re a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.
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Country People Zero
I hardly even leave my own house.
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Hardly Own House My
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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Humour Kindness Learn Relevant Stuff
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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Actors Cases Extroverts
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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Actor Always Home Thinking Work
The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
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Likes Stories Vampire
Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
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Film People Want
I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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People Stage Walks
I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
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Heart People Writing
I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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Guitar Hurt Strings
Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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Ideas Opening Play Two

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