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When you are in something that you’re proud of and it’s funny and it’s a good night out and all of those things, there’s nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.

Bill Nighy

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.
BILL NIGHY

Fans Looks Rehearsal
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.
BILL NIGHY

Cameras Jobs People
Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.
BILL NIGHY

Fascism Long Mysterious
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.
BILL NIGHY

Country People Zero
You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
BILL NIGHY

God Older Say Yourself
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.
BILL NIGHY

Done Memories Play Recall
I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
BILL NIGHY

Buttons Men Relax
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.
BILL NIGHY

Love Actually Numbers People
Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
BILL NIGHY

Guitar Order Singing
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.
BILL NIGHY

Looks Technology Thinking
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.”
BILL NIGHY

Daughter End Incredibly Please Thinking
The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
BILL NIGHY

Likes Stories Vampire
Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
BILL NIGHY

Film People Want
One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities.
BILL NIGHY

Compassion Kindness Qualities Regret
I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
BILL NIGHY

Guitar Hurt Strings
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.
BILL NIGHY

Lucky Scripts Stories

When you are in something that you’re proud of and it’s funny and it’s a good night out and all of those things, there’s nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.

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When you are in something that you’re proud of and it’s funny and it’s a good night out and all of those things, there’s nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.

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