I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said ‘What play was that?’ and he said ‘It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.’
BILL NIGHYAs you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you’ve had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you’re a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.
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I 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.
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One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities.
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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 wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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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.
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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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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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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
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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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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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I don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
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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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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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