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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.

Bill Nighy

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.’
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Actor Always Home Thinking Work
To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining ’cause she doesn’t want to go to sleep.
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Daughter Sleep Thinking
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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Likes Stories Vampire
Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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Adorable Lovely
I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said ‘What play was that?’ and he said ‘It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.’
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Fifty Play Quoted Trying
I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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Faces Helpless Romance
Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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Game Guitar Highest Music Prince
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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Cameras Jobs People
I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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Groups Politician Want
I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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Blues Crazy Rhythm Soul
If you ask any actor “What single thing would make you really, really happy?” Among the top five things they’d say is not having to audition anymore.
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Actors Auditions Really Happy
I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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Bed might Very Good
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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Absence Describe People Ways
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.
BILL NIGHY

Film People Want
I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
BILL NIGHY

People Stage Walks

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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