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.
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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To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining ’cause she doesn’t want to go to sleep.
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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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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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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.
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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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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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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 quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said ‘What play was that?’ and he said ‘It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.’
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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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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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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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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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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