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.
BILL NIGHYI 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.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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I hardly even leave my own house.
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One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.
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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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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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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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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’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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With stage, you feel completely like you’re just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can’t see anything because the lights are so bright and it’s pitch black. That’s ideal for me, that’s when I have the best time.
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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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Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
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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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