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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.

Bill Nighy

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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Fifty Play Quoted Trying
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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Guitar Order Singing
You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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Actors Ruins Wanting
Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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Game Guitar Highest Music Prince
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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Actor Always Home Thinking Work
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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Dropping Feel Important Scene Think
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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Absence Describe People Ways
I don’t do plays without jokes anymore. I’ve retired from those plays. I think it’s bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
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Anymore Dark Joke People Thinking Two
I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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People Theatre Thinking
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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Anything Being Coming Completely Much Offer
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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Actually Done Love People
I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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Groups Politician Want
You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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God Older Say Yourself
I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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Actors Long Odds
If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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Going Looks People
Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
BILL NIGHY

Film People Want
Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you’ve had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you’re a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.
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Country People Zero
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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Crisis Settings Social Sportswear
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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Giving Hard Thinking Times
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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Anything Regret Say Smoking
All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
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Gambling Jobs Sick
Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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Adorable Lovely
I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
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Heart People Writing
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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Able Black Coming Ideal Light Love
I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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Beautiful Glamorous Rain
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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Inspirational Motivational Rain
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 NIGHY

Alarms Good Night Proud

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 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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