When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
BILL NIGHYI have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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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I used to do nothing but plays. I’ve been very fortunate that on several occasions I’ve had jobs where I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer – however much money you’ve got
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They’re at their most enchanting ’cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, “Please don’t let this end.”
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Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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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 know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, “Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true.” I like those kinds of backgrounds.
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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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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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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 do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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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 think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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