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.”
BILL NIGHYI did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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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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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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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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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I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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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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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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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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One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, ‘
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In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.
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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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