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.
BILL NIGHYIf 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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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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I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.
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I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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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 generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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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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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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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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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.
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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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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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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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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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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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