Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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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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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It’s more than usually possible that I won’t do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language.
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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 don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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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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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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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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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 think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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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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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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 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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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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