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
BILL NIGHYI got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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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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I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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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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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
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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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I’m not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don’t need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who’s been a father would be able to act.
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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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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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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 do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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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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