When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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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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I’m just aware of what I’m thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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’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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Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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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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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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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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One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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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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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 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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