I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
BILL NIGHYI got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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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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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 do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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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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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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I’m just aware of what I’m thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium.
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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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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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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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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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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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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 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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