I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I’ve been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I’d go back to my younger self and say, “Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don’t be so anxious about everything.
BILL NIGHYI 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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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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I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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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 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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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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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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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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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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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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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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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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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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