When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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’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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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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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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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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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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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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I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I’ve been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I’d go back to my younger self and say, “Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don’t be so anxious about everything.
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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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One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, ‘
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There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
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I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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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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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: ‘What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.’
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