A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It’s a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.
BILL NIGHY
When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don’t. You have compassion, you try and help people. It’s a fundamental clash between two people who happen to love each other, which complicates everything.
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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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 did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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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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I don’t even own a car.
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All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
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The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There’s nothing hysterical about it.
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