I don’t think there’s an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It’s just that you’re standing up.
BILL NIGHYI learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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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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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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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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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities.
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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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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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I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
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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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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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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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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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