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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.

Bill Nighy

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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Fifty Play Quoted Trying
Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
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Hunger Way West
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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Looks Technology Thinking
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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Giving Hard Thinking Times
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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Cases Elderly Way
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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Football Kids Sorry
I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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Groups Politician Want
I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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Kids Movie
I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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Average Knows Perception
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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Guitar Order Singing
When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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Bad Grim Honest Things
Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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Game Guitar Highest Music Prince
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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Gambling Thinking Writing
You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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God Older Say Yourself
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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Auditorium Feelings Important Thinking
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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Inspirational Motivational Rain

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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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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