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.
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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I’m not famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script.
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I’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
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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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One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, ‘
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The job is the same – to attempt to make it sound like you’ve never said it before and as if it’s just occurred to you. And that’s the same whether you’re on camera or whether you’re on stage in a room full of people.
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If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I’m in crisis.
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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 got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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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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Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.
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I hardly even leave my own house.
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I’m a jacket man. And if I’m without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don’t know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
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I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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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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