My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
BILL NIGHYI’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.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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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I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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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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Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
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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 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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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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