I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
BILL NIGHYPrince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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’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’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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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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In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.
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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.
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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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It’s more than usually possible that I won’t do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language.
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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 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.
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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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As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
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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 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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