You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
BILL NIGHYWhen 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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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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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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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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I don’t even own a car.
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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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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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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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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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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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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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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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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 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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