Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you’ve had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you’re a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.
BILL NIGHYSomebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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I don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
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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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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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I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn’t operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it’s actually also true – if I want to appear in public I want to look my best.
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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 find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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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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I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don’t mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don’t want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.
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I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I’ve been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I’d go back to my younger self and say, “Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don’t be so anxious about everything.
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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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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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