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 NIGHYAnti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.
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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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Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
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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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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’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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I hardly even leave my own house.
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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don’t mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don’t want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.
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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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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’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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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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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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