I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don’t mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don’t want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.
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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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’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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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’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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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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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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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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A 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.
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Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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 ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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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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