When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
BILL NIGHYI think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
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I’m not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don’t give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.
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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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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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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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When you are in something that you’re proud of and it’s funny and it’s a good night out and all of those things, there’s nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.
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When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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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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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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You tell yourself that you’re not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, “Well, I won’t get that job. But maybe they’ll have another job sometime, and they’ll remember that I was good.”
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All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
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I hardly even leave my own house.
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