I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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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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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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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I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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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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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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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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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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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 don’t think there’s an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It’s just that you’re standing up.
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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.
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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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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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