If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
BILL NIGHYI know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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You tell yourself that you’re not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, “Well, I won’t get that job. But maybe they’ll have another job sometime, and they’ll remember that I was good.”
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The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
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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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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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I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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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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In 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.
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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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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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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 have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.
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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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