Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
BILL NIGHYI 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.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I used to do nothing but plays. I’ve been very fortunate that on several occasions I’ve had jobs where I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer – however much money you’ve got
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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 love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, “Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true.” I like those kinds of backgrounds.
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I don’t do plays without jokes anymore. I’ve retired from those plays. I think it’s bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
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I’m just aware of what I’m thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium.
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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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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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I hardly even leave my own house.
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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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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
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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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