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I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they’d arrest you for crimes against acting.

Bill Nighy

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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Daughter End Incredibly Please Thinking
I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.
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Fans Looks Rehearsal
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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Crazy Jobs Tell Thinking
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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Fifty Play Quoted Trying
I’m just aware of what I’m thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium.
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Auditorium Feelings Important Thinking
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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Beautiful Ideas Simple
When you are in something that you’re proud of and it’s funny and it’s a good night out and all of those things, there’s nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.
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Alarms Good Night Proud
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, ‘
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Anything Regret Say Smoking
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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Daughter Sleep Thinking
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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Anxiety Everybody Guess Self Yesterday
You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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Actors Ruins Wanting
I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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Guitar Hurt Strings
All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
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Gambling Jobs Sick
If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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Going Looks People
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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Anymore Dark Joke People Thinking Two
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

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