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.
BILL NIGHYHunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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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The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
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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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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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I’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
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They’re at their most enchanting ’cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, “Please don’t let this end.”
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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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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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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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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I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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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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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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