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You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.

Bill Nighy

I don’t think there’s an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It’s just that you’re standing up.
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Gambling Thinking Writing
I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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Kids Movie
I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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Buttons Men Relax
Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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Ideas Opening Play Two
Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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Game Guitar Highest Music Prince
When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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Bad Grim Honest Things
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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Clothes Joke Operate Suits Trouser Want
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
In one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it’s not just an attempt at naturalism. It’s stylised and it’s heightened, to great effect. It’s elegant and it’s funny and that’s the way to my heart, frankly.
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Effect Elegant Funny Heightened Naturalism
I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
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Humour Kindness Learn Relevant Stuff
I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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People Stage Walks
I’m not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don’t need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who’s been a father would be able to act.
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Father Obvious Everyone Order Play
If I’m onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.
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Clothes Contemporary Motor Start Trousers
I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I’ve never needed a computer. I’m lucky that I have a job where I’m not required to use one.
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Computer Jobs Lucky REquired Use
I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.
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Done Memories Play Recall
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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Beautiful Glamorous Rain

You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.

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