I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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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My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
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Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: ‘What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.’
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you’ve had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you’re a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.
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When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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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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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 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 hardly even leave my own house.
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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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They’re at their most enchanting ’cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, “Please don’t let this end.”
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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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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 find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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