When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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 you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
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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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I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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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 don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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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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I don’t even own a car.
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I used to do nothing but plays. I’ve been very fortunate that on several occasions I’ve had jobs where I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer – however much money you’ve got
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I hardly even leave my own house.
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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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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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If I’m onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.
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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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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 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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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’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’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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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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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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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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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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