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 NIGHYI 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.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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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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I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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When you are in something that you’re proud of and it’s funny and it’s a good night out and all of those things, there’s nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
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I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
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Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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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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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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I’m not famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script.
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Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
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