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.
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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In one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it’s not just an attempt at naturalism. It’s stylised and it’s heightened, to great effect. It’s elegant and it’s funny and that’s the way to my heart, frankly.
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All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
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My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
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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 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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If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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 don’t even own a car.
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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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I’m not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don’t need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who’s been a father would be able to act.
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I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they’d arrest you for crimes against acting.
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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’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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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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