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.
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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I don’t even own a car.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
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I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said ‘What play was that?’ and he said ‘It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.’
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I’m not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don’t need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who’s been a father would be able to act.
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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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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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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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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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 don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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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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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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