I used to do nothing but plays. I’ve been very fortunate that on several occasions I’ve had jobs where I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer – however much money you’ve got
BILL NIGHYI guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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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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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 famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script.
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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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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 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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I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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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 one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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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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If I’m onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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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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