I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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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 crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
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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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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 find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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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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The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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I don’t do plays without jokes anymore. I’ve retired from those plays. I think it’s bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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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