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 NIGHYActors 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.’
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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 would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I’ve been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I’d go back to my younger self and say, “Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don’t be so anxious about everything.
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The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
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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’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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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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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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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.
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Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
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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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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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