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.
BILL NIGHYAnti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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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 do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, “Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true.” I like those kinds of backgrounds.
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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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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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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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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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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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When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said ‘What play was that?’ and he said ‘It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.’
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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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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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With stage, you feel completely like you’re just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can’t see anything because the lights are so bright and it’s pitch black. That’s ideal for me, that’s when I have the best time.
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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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