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, ‘
BILL NIGHYJerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
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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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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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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’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 I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining ’cause she doesn’t want to go to sleep.
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The job is the same – to attempt to make it sound like you’ve never said it before and as if it’s just occurred to you. And that’s the same whether you’re on camera or whether you’re on stage in a room full of people.
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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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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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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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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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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 can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call ‘good manners,’ sometimes people don’t quite believe you. I’ve had that once or twice before, where they assume you can’t be for real.
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