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.
BILL NIGHYIn the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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’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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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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 wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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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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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, ‘
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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 guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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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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I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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I don’t think there’s an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It’s just that you’re standing up.
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I’m just aware of what I’m thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium.
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Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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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 admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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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 don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
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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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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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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you’ve had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you’re a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.
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