If you ask any actor “What single thing would make you really, really happy?” Among the top five things they’d say is not having to audition anymore.
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 know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
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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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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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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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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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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 don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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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 really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don’t mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don’t want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.
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To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining ’cause she doesn’t want to go to sleep.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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