I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
BILL NIGHYI really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don’t mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don’t want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.
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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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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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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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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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They’re at their most enchanting ’cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, “Please don’t let this end.”
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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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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 did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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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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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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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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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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I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don’t mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don’t want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.
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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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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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