I don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
BILL NIGHYI’ve always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I’m an actor, but felt sorry for me because they’d never seen anything I’ve done.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn’t operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it’s actually also true – if I want to appear in public I want to look my best.
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All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
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One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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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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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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In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.
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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’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
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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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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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