You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
BILL NIGHYI have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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.
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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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I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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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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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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So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines – technical things which are important, but I don’t think they change the way I feel in a scene.
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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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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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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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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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It’s more than usually possible that I won’t do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language.
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I hardly even leave my own house.
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Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
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