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.
BILL NIGHYI’m not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don’t give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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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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I’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.
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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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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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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 don’t even own a car.
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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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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 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 have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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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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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 hardly even leave my own house.
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I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.
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