I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
BILL NIGHYI 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.’
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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When a movie is called ‘searingly honest,’ it’s almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
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So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines – technical things which are important, but I don’t think they change the way I feel in a scene.
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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’ve always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I’m an actor, but felt sorry for me because they’d never seen anything I’ve done.
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The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
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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 don’t think there’s an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It’s just that you’re standing up.
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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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If I’m onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.
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I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.
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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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As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
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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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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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