I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
BILL NIGHYI 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.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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 wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.
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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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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 have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I’ve never needed a computer. I’m lucky that I have a job where I’m not required to use one.
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I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.
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I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn’t operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it’s actually also true – if I want to appear in public I want to look my best.
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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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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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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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Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
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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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In one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it’s not just an attempt at naturalism. It’s stylised and it’s heightened, to great effect. It’s elegant and it’s funny and that’s the way to my heart, frankly.
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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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