I’m a jacket man. And if I’m without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don’t know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
BILL NIGHYI’m not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don’t need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who’s been a father would be able to act.
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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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I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.
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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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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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One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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 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 generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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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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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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I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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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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