I don’t do plays without jokes anymore. I’ve retired from those plays. I think it’s bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
BILL NIGHYI like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: ‘What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.’
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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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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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When you are in something that you’re proud of and it’s funny and it’s a good night out and all of those things, there’s nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.
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I don’t even own a car.
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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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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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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 like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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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 would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I’ve been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I’d go back to my younger self and say, “Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don’t be so anxious about everything.
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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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