I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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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I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said ‘What play was that?’ and he said ‘It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.’
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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 did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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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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You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
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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 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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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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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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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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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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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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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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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