I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
BILL NIGHYIt’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.
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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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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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 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’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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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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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 don’t even own a car.
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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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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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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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Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
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In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call ‘good manners,’ sometimes people don’t quite believe you. I’ve had that once or twice before, where they assume you can’t be for real.
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I’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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