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.
BILL NIGHYI have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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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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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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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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If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
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So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines – technical things which are important, but I don’t think they change the way I feel in a scene.
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I don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
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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 don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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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 like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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If I’m onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.
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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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As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
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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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