You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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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I don’t even own a car.
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I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don’t mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don’t want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.
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I’m probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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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’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
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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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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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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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Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it’s not exclusive to the Germans.
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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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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 wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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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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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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I’m not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don’t need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who’s been a father would be able to act.
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