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
BILL NIGHYHunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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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.
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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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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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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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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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If you ask any actor “What single thing would make you really, really happy?” Among the top five things they’d say is not having to audition anymore.
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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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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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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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In one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it’s not just an attempt at naturalism. It’s stylised and it’s heightened, to great effect. It’s elegant and it’s funny and that’s the way to my heart, frankly.
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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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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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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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Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.
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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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I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.
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My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
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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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