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.”
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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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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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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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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 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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I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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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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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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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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When you are in something that you’re proud of and it’s funny and it’s a good night out and all of those things, there’s nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.
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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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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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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
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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 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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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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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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To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining ’cause she doesn’t want to go to sleep.
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I’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
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If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
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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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