Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
BILL NIGHYThe way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
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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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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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I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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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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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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The job is the same – to attempt to make it sound like you’ve never said it before and as if it’s just occurred to you. And that’s the same whether you’re on camera or whether you’re on stage in a room full of people.
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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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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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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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I don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
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You tell yourself that you’re not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, “Well, I won’t get that job. But maybe they’ll have another job sometime, and they’ll remember that I was good.”
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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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