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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.

Bill Nighy

I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, “Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true.” I like those kinds of backgrounds.
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Looks Technology Thinking
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
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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Country People Zero
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
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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Kind Men Shirts
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 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
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 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
So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines – technical things which are important, but I don’t think they change the way I feel in a scene.
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Dropping Feel Important Scene Think
I don’t even own a car.
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Car Own Purchased
I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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Computer People Weird People
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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Animation Dislike Process
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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Fascism Long Mysterious
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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Attractive Dad Style
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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Anything Being Coming Completely Much Offer
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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Inspirational Motivational Rain
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
I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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Blues Crazy Rhythm Soul
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
I’m not famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script.
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Lucky Scripts Stories
Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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Adorable Lovely
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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Believe People Real
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.
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Absence Describe People Ways
I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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Called Goes never
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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Crisis Settings Social Sportswear
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

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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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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