"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.'“


-Bill Nighy

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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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