I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
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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There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
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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 got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, “Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true.” I like those kinds of backgrounds.
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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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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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.
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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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They’re at their most enchanting ’cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, “Please don’t let this end.”
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I find it hard to relax around any man who’s got the second button on his shirt undone.
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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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I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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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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Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: ‘What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.’
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Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
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