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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.

Bill Nighy

Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
BILL NIGHY

Ideas Opening Play Two
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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Father Obvious Everyone Order Play
They’re at their most enchanting ’cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, “Please don’t let this end.”
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Daughter End Incredibly Please Thinking
Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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Done Jobs Play
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.
BILL NIGHY

Country People Zero
I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I’ve never needed a computer. I’m lucky that I have a job where I’m not required to use one.
BILL NIGHY

Computer Jobs Lucky REquired Use
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
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.
BILL NIGHY

Daughter Sleep Thinking
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.
BILL NIGHY

Fans Looks Rehearsal
You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
BILL NIGHY

God Older Say Yourself
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’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
BILL NIGHY

Beautiful Ideas Simple
I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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Anybody Spent Time
I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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Groups Politician Want
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.
BILL NIGHY

Mind People Reality Want
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.
BILL NIGHY

Acting Guy Squids

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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