Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
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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I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.
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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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I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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I’m not famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script.
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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.
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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.”
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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 did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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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’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 never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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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 have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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