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.
BILL NIGHYStanding in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call ‘good manners,’ sometimes people don’t quite believe you. I’ve had that once or twice before, where they assume you can’t be for real.
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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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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 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 can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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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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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I’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 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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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 I’m onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.
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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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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’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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