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 NIGHYPrince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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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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As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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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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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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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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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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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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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When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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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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I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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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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More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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