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.
BILL NIGHYA way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It’s a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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 find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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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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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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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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With stage, you feel completely like you’re just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can’t see anything because the lights are so bright and it’s pitch black. That’s ideal for me, that’s when I have the best time.
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I’m not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don’t give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.
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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 would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I’ve been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I’d go back to my younger self and say, “Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don’t be so anxious about everything.
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Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: ‘What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.’
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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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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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My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
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I’m a jacket man. And if I’m without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don’t know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
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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 know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
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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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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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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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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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