I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
BILL NIGHYI 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.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
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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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I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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It’s more than usually possible that I won’t do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language.
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I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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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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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.
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I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I’ve been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I’d go back to my younger self and say, “Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don’t be so anxious about everything.
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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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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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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 hardly even leave my own house.
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I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn’t operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it’s actually also true – if I want to appear in public I want to look my best.
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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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