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.
BILL NIGHYI used to do nothing but plays. I’ve been very fortunate that on several occasions I’ve had jobs where I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer – however much money you’ve got
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You tell yourself that you’re not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, “Well, I won’t get that job. But maybe they’ll have another job sometime, and they’ll remember that I was good.”
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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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There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
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The job is the same – to attempt to make it sound like you’ve never said it before and as if it’s just occurred to you. And that’s the same whether you’re on camera or whether you’re on stage in a room full of people.
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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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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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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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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 find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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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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I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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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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I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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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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