More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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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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’m not famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script.
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You tell yourself that you’re not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, “Well, I won’t get that job. But maybe they’ll have another job sometime, and they’ll remember that I was good.”
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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They’re at their most enchanting ’cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, “Please don’t let this end.”
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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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A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It’s a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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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 did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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.
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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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