More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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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In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
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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 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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Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
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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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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, “Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true.” I like those kinds of backgrounds.
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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 admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
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Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
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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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Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.
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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.
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