Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
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 did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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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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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I used to do nothing but plays. I’ve been very fortunate that on several occasions I’ve had jobs where I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer – however much money you’ve got
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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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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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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 a jacket man. And if I’m without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don’t know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
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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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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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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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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Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.
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With stage, you feel completely like you’re just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can’t see anything because the lights are so bright and it’s pitch black. That’s ideal for me, that’s when I have the best time.
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