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 NIGHYEmma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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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 love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, “Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true.” I like those kinds of backgrounds.
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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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Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
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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.
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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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As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
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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 I’m onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.
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If you ask any actor “What single thing would make you really, really happy?” Among the top five things they’d say is not having to audition anymore.
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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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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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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I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said ‘What play was that?’ and he said ‘It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.’
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