Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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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I don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
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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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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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You tell yourself that you’re not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, “Well, I won’t get that job. But maybe they’ll have another job sometime, and they’ll remember that I was good.”
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Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
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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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Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you’ve had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you’re a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.
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I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, “Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true.” I like those kinds of backgrounds.
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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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The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
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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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I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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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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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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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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