To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining ’cause she doesn’t want to go to sleep.
BILL NIGHYI like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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The job is the same – to attempt to make it sound like you’ve never said it before and as if it’s just occurred to you. And that’s the same whether you’re on camera or whether you’re on stage in a room full of people.
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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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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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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Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you’ve had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you’re a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.
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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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More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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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I’m not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don’t need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who’s been a father would be able to act.
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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.
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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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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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I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.
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