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.
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 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 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.
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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 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 think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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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 get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth.
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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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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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I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously.
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One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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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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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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