If you ask any actor “What single thing would make you really, really happy?” Among the top five things they’d say is not having to audition anymore.
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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I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.
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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 know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines – technical things which are important, but I don’t think they change the way I feel in a scene.
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As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
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I’m not famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script.
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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 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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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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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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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’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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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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All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
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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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