I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
BILL NIGHYI’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities.
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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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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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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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I’m just aware of what I’m thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium.
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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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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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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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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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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 don’t even own a car.
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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’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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