When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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’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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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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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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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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One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities.
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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 wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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You tell yourself that you’re not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, “Well, I won’t get that job. But maybe they’ll have another job sometime, and they’ll remember that I was good.”
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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 never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I’ve never needed a computer. I’m lucky that I have a job where I’m not required to use one.
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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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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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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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