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.
BILL NIGHYIf you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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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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To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining ’cause she doesn’t want to go to sleep.
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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’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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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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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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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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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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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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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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