I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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 know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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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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Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
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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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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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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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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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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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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 do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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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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I’ve always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I’m an actor, but felt sorry for me because they’d never seen anything I’ve done.
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