I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
BILL NIGHYAnyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
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I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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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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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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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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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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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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You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
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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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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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When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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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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I’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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