Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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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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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The job is the same – to attempt to make it sound like you’ve never said it before and as if it’s just occurred to you. And that’s the same whether you’re on camera or whether you’re on stage in a room full of people.
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Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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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’m not famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script.
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I’ve always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I’m an actor, but felt sorry for me because they’d never seen anything I’ve done.
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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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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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I’m a jacket man. And if I’m without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don’t know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
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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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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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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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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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