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.
BILL NIGHYIf I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.
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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 always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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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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Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
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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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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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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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When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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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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Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
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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 do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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