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Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you’ve had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you’re a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.

Bill Nighy

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.
BILL NIGHY

Actors Auditions Really Happy
Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you’ve had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you’re a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.
BILL NIGHY

Country People Zero
Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
BILL NIGHY

Guitar Order Singing
I don’t dislike the process of animation… I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
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Animation Dislike Process
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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Cameras Jobs People
I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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Beautiful Glamorous Rain
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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Giving Hard Thinking Times
I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said ‘What play was that?’ and he said ‘It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.’
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Fifty Play Quoted Trying
I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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Computer People Weird People
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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Crisis Settings Social Sportswear
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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Anything Being Coming Completely Much Offer
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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Done Memories Play Recall
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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Ideas Men Solitary Life
Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
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Game Guitar Highest Music Prince
I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.
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Fans Looks Rehearsal
The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
BILL NIGHY

Likes Stories Vampire

Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you’ve had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you’re a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.

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