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, ‘
BILL NIGHYYou have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
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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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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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I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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I hardly even leave my own house.
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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.
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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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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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I used to do nothing but plays. I’ve been very fortunate that on several occasions I’ve had jobs where I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer – however much money you’ve got
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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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It’s more than usually possible that I won’t do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language.
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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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In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.
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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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