I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
BILL NIGHYI never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I don’t even own a car.
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In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call ‘good manners,’ sometimes people don’t quite believe you. I’ve had that once or twice before, where they assume you can’t be for real.
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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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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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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’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’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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I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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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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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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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 find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.
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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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When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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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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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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I hardly even leave my own house.
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If you ask any actor “What single thing would make you really, really happy?” Among the top five things they’d say is not having to audition anymore.
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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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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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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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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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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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