More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
BILL NIGHYI’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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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 crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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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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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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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I’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
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There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
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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 like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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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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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.
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