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.
BILL NIGHYWhen you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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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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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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Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
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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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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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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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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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I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said ‘What play was that?’ and he said ‘It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.’
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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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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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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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One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, ‘
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