You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
BILL NIGHYThere are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
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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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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 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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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 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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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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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 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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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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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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I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.
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I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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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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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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