Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
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 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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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
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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 probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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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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When you are in something that you’re proud of and it’s funny and it’s a good night out and all of those things, there’s nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.
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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 did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.
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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 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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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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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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