I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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 I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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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 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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Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
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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 don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, “Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true.” I like those kinds of backgrounds.
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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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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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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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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 learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
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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’m just aware of what I’m thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium.
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