I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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 do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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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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I’m a jacket man. And if I’m without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don’t know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
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I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, “Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true.” I like those kinds of backgrounds.
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I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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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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I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they’d arrest you for crimes against acting.
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I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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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 always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
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You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
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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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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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