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
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 got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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I don’t think there’s an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It’s just that you’re standing up.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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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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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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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I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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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 like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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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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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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I’m not famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script.
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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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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 used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn’t operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it’s actually also true – if I want to appear in public I want to look my best.
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