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.
BILL NIGHYIf I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
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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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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 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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I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
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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 never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don’t mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don’t want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.
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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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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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You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
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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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I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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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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