I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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’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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Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.
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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 find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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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 did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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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 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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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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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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I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.
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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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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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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.
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