I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
BILL NIGHYI’m not famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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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 would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I’ve been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I’d go back to my younger self and say, “Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don’t be so anxious about everything.
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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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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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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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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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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One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities.
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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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