When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
BILL NIGHYJerry 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.
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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If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
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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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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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I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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They’re at their most enchanting ’cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, “Please don’t let this end.”
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One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, ‘
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The job is the same – to attempt to make it sound like you’ve never said it before and as if it’s just occurred to you. And that’s the same whether you’re on camera or whether you’re on stage in a room full of people.
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I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, “Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true.” I like those kinds of backgrounds.
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I’ve always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I’m an actor, but felt sorry for me because they’d never seen anything I’ve done.
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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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I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn’t operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it’s actually also true – if I want to appear in public I want to look my best.
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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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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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