Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
BILL NIGHYI don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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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 quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said ‘What play was that?’ and he said ‘It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.’
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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 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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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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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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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 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 don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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I don’t do plays without jokes anymore. I’ve retired from those plays. I think it’s bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
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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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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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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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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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