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.
BILL NIGHYI 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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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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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I don’t even own a car.
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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’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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My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
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As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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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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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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