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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More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It’s a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.
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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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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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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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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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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I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I’ve never needed a computer. I’m lucky that I have a job where I’m not required to use one.
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I hardly even leave my own house.
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I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, “Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true.” I like those kinds of backgrounds.
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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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More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
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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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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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’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.
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One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, ‘
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I’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
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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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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 have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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