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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .

Bill Nighy

Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: ‘What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.’
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Actor Always Home Thinking Work
I hardly even leave my own house.
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Hardly Own House My
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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Dropping Feel Important Scene Think
One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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Actors Cases Extroverts
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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Anything Regret Say Smoking
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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Anymore Dark Joke People Thinking Two
Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.
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Fascism Long Mysterious
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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Guitar Order Singing
Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
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Fall Girl Memories
Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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Done Jobs Play
More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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Actually Done Love People
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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Fans Looks Rehearsal
The job is the same – to attempt to make it sound like you’ve never said it before and as if it’s just occurred to you. And that’s the same whether you’re on camera or whether you’re on stage in a room full of people.
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Cameras Jobs People
I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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Guitar Hurt Strings
I don’t even own a car.
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Car Own Purchased
I’ve always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I’m an actor, but felt sorry for me because they’d never seen anything I’ve done.
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Football Kids Sorry

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