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1. black
2. grey
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4. red
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I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.

Bill Nighy

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  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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  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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  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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  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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  I hardly even leave my own house.

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  Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.

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  I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.

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  With stage, you feel completely like you’re just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can’t see anything because the lights are so bright and it’s pitch black. That’s ideal for me, that’s when I have the best time.

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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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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.

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  The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

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  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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  I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!

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  One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities.

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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 admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.

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  Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: ‘What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.’

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  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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  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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  Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.

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  I’m not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don’t give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.

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  If you ask any actor “What single thing would make you really, really happy?” Among the top five things they’d say is not having to audition anymore.

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  Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.

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