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.
BILL NIGHYI’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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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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I hardly even leave my own house.
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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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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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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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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 guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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If I’m onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.
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I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I’ve been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I’d go back to my younger self and say, “Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don’t be so anxious about everything.
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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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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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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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I don’t even own a car.
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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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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