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.
BILL NIGHYOne of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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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 have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I’ve never needed a computer. I’m lucky that I have a job where I’m not required to use one.
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Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.
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I’m not famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script.
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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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If you ask any actor “What single thing would make you really, really happy?” Among the top five things they’d say is not having to audition anymore.
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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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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More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities.
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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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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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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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