Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
BILL NIGHYI think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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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 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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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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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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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’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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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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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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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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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’m not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don’t need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who’s been a father would be able to act.
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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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