If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
BILL NIGHYI don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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.
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It’s more than usually possible that I won’t do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language.
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I don’t do plays without jokes anymore. I’ve retired from those plays. I think it’s bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
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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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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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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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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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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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 know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
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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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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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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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