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.
BILL NIGHYI’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.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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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 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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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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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 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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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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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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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 don’t even own a car.
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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 think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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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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