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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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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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 admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
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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 like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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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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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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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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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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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 quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said ‘What play was that?’ and he said ‘It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.’
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In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.
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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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I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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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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