I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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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When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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If I’m onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.
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A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It’s a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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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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I’ve always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I’m an actor, but felt sorry for me because they’d never seen anything I’ve done.
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My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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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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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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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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In one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it’s not just an attempt at naturalism. It’s stylised and it’s heightened, to great effect. It’s elegant and it’s funny and that’s the way to my heart, frankly.
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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.
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I hardly even leave my own house.
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