I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
BILL NIGHYJerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
More Bill Nighy Quotes
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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’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
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I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they’d arrest you for crimes against acting.
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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.
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Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
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Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
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I don’t even own a car.
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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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All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
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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’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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In one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it’s not just an attempt at naturalism. It’s stylised and it’s heightened, to great effect. It’s elegant and it’s funny and that’s the way to my heart, frankly.
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Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
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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 generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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