In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.
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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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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More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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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 always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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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 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 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 do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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If I’m going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
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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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Whatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
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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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My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
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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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