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 NIGHYEmma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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In one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it’s not just an attempt at naturalism. It’s stylised and it’s heightened, to great effect. It’s elegant and it’s funny and that’s the way to my heart, frankly.
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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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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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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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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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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
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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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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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.
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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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I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
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