You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine 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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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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So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines – technical things which are important, but I don’t think they change the way I feel in a scene.
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I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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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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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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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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Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.
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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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With 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.
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
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I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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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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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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One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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