I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
BILL NIGHYI’m just aware of what I’m thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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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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All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
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I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don’t mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don’t want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.
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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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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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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 want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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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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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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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 have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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