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.
BILL NIGHYStanding in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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 never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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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It’s more than usually possible that I won’t do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language.
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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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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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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 guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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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 did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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