When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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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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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
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I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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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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I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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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 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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Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
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I’m not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don’t give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.
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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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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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