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.
BILL NIGHYWhen a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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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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 got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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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.
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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 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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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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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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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 love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they’d arrest you for crimes against acting.
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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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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 guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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