When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
BILL NIGHYI do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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 admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
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I 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.
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I’m not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don’t give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.
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You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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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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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 don’t even own a car.
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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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With stage, you feel completely like you’re just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can’t see anything because the lights are so bright and it’s pitch black. That’s ideal for me, that’s when I have the best time.
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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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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 think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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