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.
BILL NIGHYTry to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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 hardly even leave my own house.
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The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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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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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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The job is the same – to attempt to make it sound like you’ve never said it before and as if it’s just occurred to you. And that’s the same whether you’re on camera or whether you’re on stage in a room full of people.
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I used to do nothing but plays. I’ve been very fortunate that on several occasions I’ve had jobs where I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer – however much money you’ve got
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Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: ‘What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.’
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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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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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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn’t operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it’s actually also true – if I want to appear in public I want to look my best.
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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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