If you ask any actor “What single thing would make you really, really happy?” Among the top five things they’d say is not having to audition anymore.
BILL NIGHYI like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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’m just aware of what I’m thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium.
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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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Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
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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 generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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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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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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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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In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call ‘good manners,’ sometimes people don’t quite believe you. I’ve had that once or twice before, where they assume you can’t be for real.
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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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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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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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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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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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