Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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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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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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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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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You tell yourself that you’re not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, “Well, I won’t get that job. But maybe they’ll have another job sometime, and they’ll remember that I was good.”
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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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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 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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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining ’cause she doesn’t want to go to sleep.
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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 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 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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I hardly even leave my own house.
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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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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