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’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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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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 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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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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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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They’re at their most enchanting ’cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, “Please don’t let this end.”
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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You tell yourself that you’re not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, “Well, I won’t get that job. But maybe they’ll have another job sometime, and they’ll remember that I was good.”
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I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
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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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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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With stage, you feel completely like you’re just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can’t see anything because the lights are so bright and it’s pitch black. That’s ideal for me, that’s when I have the best time.
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