More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
BILL NIGHYI’m not famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I’ve always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I’m an actor, but felt sorry for me because they’d never seen anything I’ve done.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, ‘
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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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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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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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All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
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My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
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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 got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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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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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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