Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you’ve had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you’re a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.
BILL NIGHYI admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I don’t even own a car.
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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’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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All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
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One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
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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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I’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
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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 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.
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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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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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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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