Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
BILL NIGHYI like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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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’ve always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I’m an actor, but felt sorry for me because they’d never seen anything I’ve done.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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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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I don’t even own a car.
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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 don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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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 find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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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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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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