You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
BILL NIGHYIf you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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 find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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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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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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Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
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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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Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you’ve had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you’re a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.
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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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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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A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It’s a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.
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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 like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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