Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
BILL NIGHYThe job is the same – to attempt to make it sound like you’ve never said it before and as if it’s just occurred to you. And that’s the same whether you’re on camera or whether you’re on stage in a room full of people.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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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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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 do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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With stage, you feel completely like you’re just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can’t see anything because the lights are so bright and it’s pitch black. That’s ideal for me, that’s when I have the best time.
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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 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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I hardly even leave my own house.
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I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they’d arrest you for crimes against acting.
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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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When you are in something that you’re proud of and it’s funny and it’s a good night out and all of those things, there’s nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.
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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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