I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
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I’ve always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I’m an actor, but felt sorry for me because they’d never seen anything I’ve done.
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A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It’s a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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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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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I’ve been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I’d go back to my younger self and say, “Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don’t be so anxious about everything.
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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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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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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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I hardly even leave my own house.
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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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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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