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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.

Bill Nighy

Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
BILL NIGHY

Adorable Lovely
I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
BILL NIGHY

Computer People Weird People
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 NIGHY

Cameras Jobs People
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.
BILL NIGHY

Lucky Play World
I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn’t operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it’s actually also true – if I want to appear in public I want to look my best.
BILL NIGHY

Clothes Joke Operate Suits Trouser Want
I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
BILL NIGHY

Actors Long Odds
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

Actor Always Home Thinking Work
I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
BILL NIGHY

Ideas Men Solitary Life
I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
BILL NIGHY

Boys Fabulous Thinking
Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
BILL NIGHY

Guitar Order Singing
When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
BILL NIGHY

Couple Months Play
I’m not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don’t give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.
BILL NIGHY

Giving Hard Thinking Times
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.
BILL NIGHY

Able Black Coming Ideal Light Love
More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
BILL NIGHY

Actually Done Love People
You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
BILL NIGHY

Inspirational Motivational Rain
Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you’ve had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you’re a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.
BILL NIGHY

Country People Zero

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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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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