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 NIGHYAs you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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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 hardly even leave my own house.
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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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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’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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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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.’
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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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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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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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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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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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