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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

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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Lucky Play World
If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
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Crisis Settings Social Sportswear
I hardly even leave my own house.
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Hardly Own House My
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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Able Black Coming Ideal Light Love
I don’t even own a car.
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Car Own Purchased
I’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
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Beautiful Ideas Simple
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
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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Men Three World
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 good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don’t give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.
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Giving Hard Thinking Times
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
Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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Ideas Opening Play Two
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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Anymore Dark Joke People Thinking Two
I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
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Humour Kindness Learn Relevant Stuff
I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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Anybody Spent Time
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, ‘
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Anything Regret Say Smoking

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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