You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
BILL NIGHYSomebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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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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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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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 got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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It’s more than usually possible that I won’t do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language.
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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
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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 a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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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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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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