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Bill Nighy

I don’t think there’s an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It’s just that you’re standing up.
BILL NIGHY

Gambling Thinking Writing
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.
BILL NIGHY

Effect Elegant Funny Heightened Naturalism
So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines – technical things which are important, but I don’t think they change the way I feel in a scene.
BILL NIGHY

Dropping Feel Important Scene Think
I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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Kids Movie
I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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Bed might Very Good
I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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Beautiful Glamorous Rain
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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Attention Beauty More Needs Older Pay
The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
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Cases Elderly Way
I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
BILL NIGHY

Called Goes never
I don’t even own a car.
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Car Own Purchased
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.”
BILL NIGHY

Daughter End Incredibly Please Thinking
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.
BILL NIGHY

Absence Describe People Ways
One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
BILL NIGHY

Actors Cases Extroverts
I don’t do plays without jokes anymore. I’ve retired from those plays. I think it’s bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
BILL NIGHY

Anymore Dark Joke People Thinking Two
I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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Pirate Probably Radio Remember
I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
BILL NIGHY

Heart People Writing

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