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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.

Bill Nighy

In one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it’s not just an attempt at naturalism. It’s stylised and it’s heightened, to great effect. It’s elegant and it’s funny and that’s the way to my heart, frankly.
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Effect Elegant Funny Heightened Naturalism
I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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Bed might Very Good
Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
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Fall Girl Memories
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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Recover Smoke Stop
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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Heart People Writing
I hardly even leave my own house.
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Hardly Own House My
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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Football Kids Sorry
I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.
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Fans Looks Rehearsal
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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Actor Always Home Thinking Work
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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Auditorium Feelings Important Thinking
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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Lucky Scripts Stories
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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Film People Want
I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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Buttons Men Relax
I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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Anybody Spent Time
I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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Pirate Probably Radio Remember
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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Mind People Reality Want

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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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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