You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
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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Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I’ve never needed a computer. I’m lucky that I have a job where I’m not required to use one.
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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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.
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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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I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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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 find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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I’m a jacket man. And if I’m without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don’t know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
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I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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I’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
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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 think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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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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Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
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So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines – technical things which are important, but I don’t think they change the way I feel in a scene.
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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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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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As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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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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