More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
BILL NIGHYI would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I’ve been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I’d go back to my younger self and say, “Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don’t be so anxious about everything.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I’ve never needed a computer. I’m lucky that I have a job where I’m not required to use one.
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I’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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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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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 did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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In one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it’s not just an attempt at naturalism. It’s stylised and it’s heightened, to great effect. It’s elegant and it’s funny and that’s the way to my heart, frankly.
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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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When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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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’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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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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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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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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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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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