The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
BILL NIGHYI 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.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they’d arrest you for crimes against acting.
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Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
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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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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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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 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 don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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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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More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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When you are in something that you’re proud of and it’s funny and it’s a good night out and all of those things, there’s nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.
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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 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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