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.”
BILL NIGHYI find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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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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Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
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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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I hardly even leave my own house.
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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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I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn’t operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it’s actually also true – if I want to appear in public I want to look my best.
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If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
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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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If I’m onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.
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I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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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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A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It’s a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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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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Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
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I don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
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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 have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I’ve never needed a computer. I’m lucky that I have a job where I’m not required to use one.
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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 would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I’ve been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I’d go back to my younger self and say, “Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don’t be so anxious about everything.
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Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you’ve had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you’re a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.
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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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