I don’t even own a car.
BILL NIGHYWith stage, you feel completely like you’re just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can’t see anything because the lights are so bright and it’s pitch black. That’s ideal for me, that’s when I have the best time.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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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’m just aware of what I’m thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium.
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I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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In one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it’s not just an attempt at naturalism. It’s stylised and it’s heightened, to great effect. It’s elegant and it’s funny and that’s the way to my heart, frankly.
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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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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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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I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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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 got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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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.
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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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