If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
BILL NIGHYA 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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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining ’cause she doesn’t want to go to sleep.
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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’m a jacket man. And if I’m without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don’t know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
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There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
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The job is the same – to attempt to make it sound like you’ve never said it before and as if it’s just occurred to you. And that’s the same whether you’re on camera or whether you’re on stage in a room full of people.
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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’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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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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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 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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With stage, you feel completely like you’re just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can’t see anything because the lights are so bright and it’s pitch black. That’s ideal for me, that’s when I have the best time.
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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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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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