Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
BILL NIGHYMore people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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If I’m onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.
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I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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I’m not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don’t give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.
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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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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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I used to do nothing but plays. I’ve been very fortunate that on several occasions I’ve had jobs where I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer – however much money you’ve got
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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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 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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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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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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