I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
BILL NIGHYOne of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities.
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I’m a jacket man. And if I’m without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don’t know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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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 have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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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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I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said ‘What play was that?’ and he said ‘It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.’
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One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities.
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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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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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I hardly even leave my own house.
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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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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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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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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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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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