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 NIGHYSo 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.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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 have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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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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They’re at their most enchanting ’cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, “Please don’t let this end.”
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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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When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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I hardly even leave my own house.
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As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
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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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When you are in something that you’re proud of and it’s funny and it’s a good night out and all of those things, there’s nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.
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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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