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.
BILL NIGHYI really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don’t mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don’t want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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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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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 don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
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As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
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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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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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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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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.
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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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With stage, you feel completely like you’re just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can’t see anything because the lights are so bright and it’s pitch black. That’s ideal for me, that’s when I have the best time.
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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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