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.
BILL NIGHYI 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.’
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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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 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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The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
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I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.
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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 ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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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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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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It’s more than usually possible that I won’t do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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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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