When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
BILL NIGHYMy dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
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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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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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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.
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I used to do nothing but plays. I’ve been very fortunate that on several occasions I’ve had jobs where I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer – however much money you’ve got
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I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
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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 wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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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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I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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They’re at their most enchanting ’cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, “Please don’t let this end.”
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My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
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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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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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I’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
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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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