So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines – technical things which are important, but I don’t think they change the way I feel in a scene.
BILL NIGHYI do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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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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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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I’m not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don’t give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.
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The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
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I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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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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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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I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they’d arrest you for crimes against acting.
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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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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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