If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
BILL NIGHYI have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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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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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’ve always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I’m an actor, but felt sorry for me because they’d never seen anything I’ve done.
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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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When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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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 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.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn’t operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it’s actually also true – if I want to appear in public I want to look my best.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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 did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don’t mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don’t want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.
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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 don’t think there’s an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It’s just that you’re standing up.
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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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The job is the same – to attempt to make it sound like you’ve never said it before and as if it’s just occurred to you. And that’s the same whether you’re on camera or whether you’re on stage in a room full of people.
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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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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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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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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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 guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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