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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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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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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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 did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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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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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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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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Jerry 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’m not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don’t need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who’s been a father would be able to act.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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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’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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The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
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