I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
BILL NIGHYSo 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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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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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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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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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: ‘What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.’
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It’s more than usually possible that I won’t do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language.
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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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One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, ‘
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As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
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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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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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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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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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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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