I’m not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don’t give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.
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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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 have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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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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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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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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More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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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 did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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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’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.
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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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